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Lucile Turner calls her type of singing "makin' glory." Thumping out her own accompaniments at the piano, she sings about love, Jesus, "pleasurin' my man," cotton fields, the thousand and one details and incidents of the Southern Negro's life. Sometimes she intones a prayer or a sermon in graphic Negro imagery...
Lucile Turner was last week on tour in Washington, D.C., "makin' glory" for Lord Halifax at the British Embassy, giving his son, legless Lieut. Richard Wood, the best time he had had since an unexploded Nazi bomb smashed him in Libya. Recent concert dates had taken her to many U.S. Army camps, to Manhattan's Rainbow Room, Brooklyn's Academy of Music, Manhattan's Town Hall...
Newspapers in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and way stations ran scare stories about the most unthinkable food shortage yet, a black market to end all black markets. This time it was potatoes. With other food shortages already makin dinner planning a hollow mockery (see cut), outraged housewives wanted to know why this latest outrage. How could the U.S. be out of potatoes...
Navy citations last week added details to one of the most daring U.S. exploits of this war-the Marine Corps raid on Makin Island, 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii (TIME, Sept. 7). Navy Crosses went to 15 men, among them Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt. Back in action with his outfit, he got his medal on Guadalcanal last October from CINCPAC Admiral Chester W. Nimitz...
Last fortnight Elliott read in a Gibraltar newspaper that the Navy's Lieut. (j.g.) Franklin Roosevelt was in a Philadelphia hospital, "recovering from something that happened around North Africa." Other Roosevelts in action: Lieut. Colonel James, who took part in the Marine raid on Makin, now on duty in California; Lieut. John, on Navy duty in San Diego...