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...Songstress Jane Froman, brunette favorite of G.I.s. Since she was injured on her first tour, in the 1943 Lisbon Clipper crash, she has had 18 operations, is "finishing the job" on crutches. ¶ Comedians Jack Benny and Bob Hope, and Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, accompanied by full companies of stooges and satellites...
...burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident on Pan-American's Atlantic run since...
Sixteen of the 39 persons aboard the big plane, including Jane Froman, American stago, screen and radio singing star, were being treated for injuries. The Clipper brought 26 passengers from New York and one from Horta, in addition to its crow...
...bill included Comedian Milton Berle, Tap Dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, Singers Jane Froman, Ginger Harmon and Fifi D'Orsay - who favored soldier assistants with lipsticky kisses. Proof of Billy Rose's success was the raucous approval of the previously hot, bored soldiers. Greatly pleased was the Citizens Committee for the Army & Navy, Inc., now in charge of all professional Army & Navy entertainment. Last week routes were being charted for seven show-mobiles...
...made the wrong remark: "Some of you fellows think you are funnier than I am, so you tell the jokes and I'll do the laughing." He escaped the ultimate bird only by giving the audience what it wanted-Tap Dancer Betty Bruce, brunette Singer Jane Froman, acrobats, eight chorines from Comedian Wynn's Boys and Girls Together. After that, the audience laughed at Comedian Wynn's foolery...