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...fight this war to a decision means . . . Japan must be so beaten . . . that she will not dare to entertain an aggressive thought for 100 years. This can be done only if a fundamental revolution . . . sweeps away the military caste ... the emperor and the cult of emperor worship...
...dance is sponsored by the Jewish Professional and Business Men of Greater Boston's association, and the committee in charge of the dance is headed by Abraham Isenstadt of Harvard Square. There will be free refreshments. The entire show from the May fair will come down to entertain...
Carrying on Mother Advocate's tradition, the Bow Street editors in conjunction with the Harvard Dramatic Club will entertain Paul Robeson and other principals from the cast of "Othello" at a punch at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon...
...their songs. He was indefatigable, running himself ragged with five, six, seven shows a day. He was figurative-the straight link with home, the radio voice that for years had filled the living room and that in foreign parts called up its image. Hence boys whom Hope might entertain for an hour awaited him for weeks. And when he came, anonymous guys who had had no other recognition felt personally remembered...
...British circuit was tougher, with Hope & Company (Comic Jack Pepper substituting for Jerry Colonna) "resting" from camp shows by bobbing up in hospitals, dropping in on ack-ack crews, sloshing across rainswept heaths to entertain soldiers on maneuvers. Hope's gags got around so fast he had to keep changing them, and he and Scriptwriter Hal Block ground out new ones in bumpy transit, or in hotel rooms long past midnight...