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Lanza perked up after Silver arranged to get him out of the MPs and into Special Services as a singer. They became fast buddies and fellow performers. Then came a chance for an audition before Sergeant Peter Lind Hayes, the nightclub and TV comic, who was traveling through to recruit performers for an Army Air Force show, On the Beam. In spite of his rare protective talents as a chowhound and goldbrick, Lanza's throat was so raw with Texas dust that he could not sing. Silver, who was already selected for the show, devised a ruse...
...Pilot Robert C. Lind climbed westward away from Manhattan, the moon turned pale and then went out behind thick clouds. Three hours later, after he had crossed blackened Lake Erie and passed the lights of Detroit, he could see the flickering glow of lightning ahead on the horizon, the cold front the weather maps had predicted...
...quarter-hour later, when he was starting across Lake Michigan into the storm, he asked air traffic control for permission to drop a thousand feet from his assigned 3,500-ft. altitude. CAA said no, there was too much traffic already running at the lower level. Neither Pilot Lind nor the 57 others aboard was ever heard from again...
...building to receive a Phi Beta Kappa key and an honorary doctorate of laws. He took lunch at the home of the university's tall, grey-haired President Frederick Middlebush. Afterward in the living room he got a new round of laughter and applause by playing the Jenny Lind Polka as a piano duet with his sister, birdlike, 60-year-old Mary Jane Truman, and by giving her a brotherly poke with his elbow for making a mistake in her chording...
Manhattan's Luchow's Restaurant, a favorite hangout of Teddy Roosevelt and Jenny Lind, where Diamond Jim Brady went for bearnaise sauce, Enrico Caruso for pigs' knuckles and John Philip Sousa for imported frankfurters, was sold by Proprietor Victor Eckstein (an heir of Founder August Luchow) for about $500,000. Although the restaurant will carry on under new management, Oldtimer H. L. Mencken mourned: "It's the end of civilization...