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After their mass resignation (TIME, March 9), Norway's Lutheran bishops were ordered to report twice daily to the Gestapo. So they assembled in Oslo, reported in a body, in their official garb. Crowds gathered to cheer them. The baffled Gestapo has now ordered them to report to a more obscure station...
...time for all good cellulords to rally their material and dress up Patriotism in the garb of history for the consumption of wide-eyed school children. Some of these attempts--"Night Train," "The Mortal Storm,"--have been powerfully done. But "They Died With Their Boots On" is in the same class with "Sergeant York": confused in its theme; rambling in its plot; corny in its characterizations...
...four weeks ago to demand that the third clause of the Atlantic Charter (right of self-determination of nations) be applied to Burma too. Through London for a full day he had strutted in silken toga and colored skirt, silk kerchief on his head, then had switched to European garb because of London's cold. Last fortnight he saw Prime Minister Churchill, for whom he had brought a box of Burma's Kipling-famed cheroots...
Dressed in the traditional garb of John Harvard, Barnes and Klaw will march on the "Eternal Vigil" of the American Peace Mobilization group. By joining this picket line that continually winds about the white House, they hope to show the President their determination that the United States should no participate in the present...
...minuet instead of the popular tunes submitted by other contestants. Mouth Organist Adler went to Manhattan, at 16 played a bit in Flo Ziegfeld's Smiles, became a protégé of Eddie Cantor, whom he slightly resembled. In his early stage turns, Larry Adler wore ragamuffin garb, a conventional uniform for harmonicists. But after C. B. Cochran took him to London in 1934 nothing less than white tie & tails would do. Since then, Harmonicist Adler has rarely performed with any more modest backing than a 30-piece band...