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...grocer's daughter, Ellabelle Davis used to sing hymns in the church choir on Sundays. Weekdays she hummed arias as she sewed for Westchester County suburbanites in the Mattie Bowe Dressmaking Establishment. While pinning a dress on a customer one day, she sang the Depnis le Jour aria from Gustave Charpentier's Louise, an opera whose heroine is a seamstress. The customer, Louise Crane, paper mill heiress, daughter of Massachusetts' late wealthy Governor Winthrop Murray Crane, offered to finance her voice lessons...
Died. Major Putnam Bradlee ("Putty") Strong, 71, onetime "handsomest man in the U.S. Army," whose sentimental jour neys (contemporary estimate: 41,339 miles) and subsequent nuptials with mad cap Actress May Yohe, then Lady (Hope Diamond) Hope, were accompanied by an international obbligato of tongue-clacking and ended in a 1910 divorce after she accused him of pawning $300,000 worth of her jewels; in University...
...worked hard; 50 to 60 coups par jour. From three to ten at night. And three flights of stairs every time. My feet were gone before dark. Soldiers and sailors came from all over Norway, and officers in civilian clothes. We knew what ships were in port, what units were passing through, but there was no one to tell...
Basic Invasion. In Normandy, Canadian Lieut. Charlie Hudson encountered a French boy, said "Bon jour." Replied the French boy: "Got any gum, chum...
...jour de gloire est arriv...