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Magdalena (music by Heitor Villa-Lobos; book by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan & Homer Curran; produced by Mr. Curran) is Broadway's first encounter with Brazil's most famous composer...
...Villa-Lobos' U.S. neighbors are getting to know him better. His latest music arrived on Broadway this week in a garishly attractive package-a flamboyant new musical called Magdalena. For want of a better label, Sponsor Homer Curran and Producer Edwin Lester had billed it as "a musical adventure...
...Democratic Party. Jim Farley could not make it; he was en route to Europe. Neither could John J. Raskob, who had already predicted victory for Tom Dewey. But such oldtimers as Ohio's George White, who managed the unsuccessful Cox-Roosevelt campaign of 1920, and ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings arrived to assure the President that Democratic fortunes were looking...
What George Polk (see above) and every other Balkan correspondent yearned to do, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart up & did. He found and interviewed Greek guerrilla General Markos in his Grammos Mountain stronghold. This week, after sitting on it for more than a fortnight (presumably to avoid competing with convention news), the Trib ran his interview as a four-part series. It tingled with some of the cloak-&-dagger thrills of an Eric Ambler novel...
Indiana's chubby Governor Ralph Fesler Gates, who had helped send Jenner to the Senate two years ago, could easily see through Jenner's strategy. If Jenner were elected governor, he could resign from the Senate, name his successor, and thus get control (along with Senator Homer Capehart) of most of Indiana's state and federal patronage. He let it be known that House Majority Leader Charles Halleck would get first crack at his Senate seat...