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Speaking with an authority on marriage derived from 20 years as rector of Manhattan's famed Little Church Around the Corner, Dr. J. (for Jackson) H. (for Harvelle) Randolph Ray deplores hasty wartime weddings. He thinks they are usually the result of "glamor and excitement rather than genuine affection," do not give the couple a chance to adjust to each other, are especially unfortunate if immediate offspring result. But Rector Ray knows that warriors and their girls will continue to get married no matter what he thinks, so offers the following seven rules for war brides...
...Democrats had all the glamor: a young, medal-bedecked war hero on crutches. The Republicans had 1) an unexciting, well-to-do, bulky and balding businessman candidate, 2) a tide of opinion running their way. Last week in Denver, the tide and the Republican...
...nearest thing in modern opera to the lobster-supper diva of musical fable is exuberant, 42-year-old Grace Moore. Like the Farrars and Jeritzas of the past, she has managed to be both a voice and a glamor girl. She is perhaps the only opera singer in the U.S. who receives emerald necklaces as casual presents from admirers, and certainly the only one who has gone on tour in a Hispano-Suiza complete with French maid and chauffeur...
Grace Moore had looks and an electrifying personality that would have made her a smash in musical comedy. But to the little girl from Slabtown, opera was still the end in glamor. She saved her Broadway paychecks, worked on her voice, cultivated people. ". . . Never have I underestimated the importance of my rich friends," admits Grace, "because, they have given me the opportunity . . . to sit in the assembly lines of jeweled women who hold down the golden horseshoes of the concert halls of the world. . . . Economic determination is one thing, the mouth of a gift horse another...
There was not much glamor in it, Hobby's army had found out. Living quarters were either huts heated by a single stove, or some drafty English country house. Only a few hundred WACs working in London were lucky enough to live in greater comfort. The pay was low. The hours were long. Discipline was strict. Sometimes there were bombings...