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...Switzerland have had no diplomatic relations since 1918, when the Swiss expelled a Russian mission for fostering Communist strikes. Business be tween the two countries was brisk. But good will was. not increased when four years ago the Swiss Government cracked down on both the Swiss Communist Party and home-grown Nazis...
Darcy is a home-grown product-from Chicago by way of Minneapolis. Massive, 35-year-old descendant of midwestern Norwegians, he got all his vocal training in the U.S., most of his ideas about Parsifal by watching Melchior night after night. At the age of 21 Darcy left home in Minneapolis to study singing, married his Chicago teacher, Mme. Lucie Lenox. After a few years in midwestern vaudeville, singing things like Wagon Wheels complete with cart effect, he tried out as a baritone but failed to win the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air. A year later (in 1940) he tried...
...they do or not this is my opinion . . . that 45 cents for some of them drinks is terrible. . . . Some of this stuff they serve you now has drove more guys to the water wagon than any Lent in history." Roundy Coughlin is Wisconsin's most widely read home-grown philosopher. This week he started his 21st year on the State Journal of Madison with: "Here is a chance for the Journal to throw a little party for me. This is just a little reminder that is all everything is on the cuff" (Roundy is always drumming up free meals...
...unexpressed hunger in the souls of moviegoers." But Academy President Walter Wanger (producer husband of Joan Bennett), with only a bit part on the program, got the biggest hand. He put aside his scheduled talk, and attacked the Alliance: "Let's keep the record straight. We, too, find home-grown communism as odious as home-grown fascism. . . . [But we do not] intend to be misled by the familiar Hitler line by which communism is made the bogey . . . to confuse...
Already reports this week spoke of a wholesale, panicky flight of Germans and home-grown Nazis from the Baltic States to the Reich. Refugees clung to the roofs of overcrowded trains. In Riga, ships were packed with evacuees...