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THERE are 537 of them according to the official lists???the American prisoners of war, confined in an unknown number of detention camps somewhere in Indochina. More than half of them are airmen, downed during the long bombing campaign; over 50 are civilians, trapped while out on patrol. One of them, Lieut, (j.g.) Everett Alvarez, now 34, was shot down fully eight years ago; others, still unidentified, may have been seized during the past few weeks. In the 60 days after the impending truce settlement, they will all begin their voyage home...
Konrad Bercovici is one of these walrus-mustached foreigners who give a touch of the exotic to the reaches of the Hotel Algonquin, Manhattan. Two new books of his are on the autumn lists???Around the World in New York and lliana, a collection of gypsy stories. His play, Costa's Daughter, will soon be unveiled to the glances of Broadway. Bercovici is a Rumanian, born there in 1882. He came to this country in 1916, but no amount of American sunlight and air, fortunately, can erase the swarthy hue of his person or the sleek ebon of hair...
...offered a silver trophy cup for the best performance given by any competing Little Theatre Group of the Metropolitan District! Sing a song of sixpence?a chanty of three $100 prizes awarded for those three groups of players deemed best by the gaffers sitting in judgment! Sing the lists???the trampled stage of the Nora Bayes Theatre?Ashby de la Zouch redivivus! Sing the embattled hosts...
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