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...academic study of U. S. air power, New York Times Military Expert Hanson W. Baldwin plumps for more bases (in the Galápagos Islands, in Canada and on the strategic shoulder of Brazil), suggests long-range bombers be withheld from Britain to patrol our "moats" and fill in for the two-ocean navy until its completion...
...This week Washington and Ecuador were negotiating over naval bases on the Galápagos...
...jittery U. S., Sedta is as sinister as her late sister Scadta. Recently she has sought (unsuccessfully) to extend service to 1) Colombia, 2) the Galápagos Islands,† which, though sparsely inhabited and commercially impotent, are located strategically near the Panama Canal, 3) the jungles of eastern Ecuador, from which she could easily connect with Lufthansa-owned Condor's penetration line in western Brazil. Her Junkers JU52s (used as troop transports in Belgium, The Netherlands) could fly from Ecuador to the Canal Zone in four hours or less...
...Hullabaloo" is a mildly amusing show with plenty of Frank Morgan, but the gal who steals the show is an incredible-looking harpy who sings "Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair" like it ain't never been sung before! The story is one of those back-mike jobs about auditions, and talent, and Orson Welles's Mars broadcast. A few tears are dropped on vaudeville's grave, but the general message is that entertainment will go marching on. "Hullabaloo" is not too strong marching, though...
...work is a five-move ment setting of U. S. songs, with two dance-tune interludes. The songs: When Johnny Comes Marching Home; Oh, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie; The Dying Cowboy; Oh, Pappy'll Tie My Shoes; De Trumpet Sounds It in My Soul; The Gal I Left Behind...