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This week Publisher Allen was preparing a gala blowout in Laredo for Mexican Defense Minister ex-President Lazaro Car-lenas, on tour of Mexico war plants. Also invited were Lieut. General Walter Krueger, commanding the U.S. Third Army, the Air Forces' Major General Hubert Harmon, other military bigwigs...
Ever since famed Soprano Henriette Sontag first sang these lines in 1854 at a gala premiere arranged by Mexico's flamboyant Dictator Santa Anna, Mexicans have sung them as their national anthem. But the man who composed the rather operatic music to which they are sung was practically unknown. His name was Jaime...
...Cross George Washington Club-for enlisted men and guests only -is the biggest morale booster. This attractive remodeled hotel has been packed since its opening. Boys use the big lounge, crowd four beds to a room every weekend, fill barbershop, showers, game room, attend gala Saturday night dances with Red Cross-invited WAAFs, WRENs, ETATs, get messages, mail, write names on little flags to stick into their home base on a special map of the U.S. (so that local boys can get together), get free tickets, sign up for popular sightseeing tours, eat doughnuts and waffles, drink real coffee, cokes...
...clock and 7 and 8 o'clock. Except for the Jubilee, the Senior Spread is the only dance that a class gives as a whole, and it is expected that this year's turnout will be an large, if not larger, than that at last year's gala occasion...
Despite a dearth of cars and evening dress, and a 6:30 curtain, London had its splashiest opening since the blitz last week - a Charles Cochran revue starring Beatrice Lillie. If Big Top itself was pretty routine, the star was brilliant, the atmosphere gala, the audience happy. Looking young as ever, Lillie cut up all over the place, stopped the show with a take-off on a blues singer, never for a second betrayed the fact that her young son had recently been reported missing by the Navy...