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Before the Japs came, life at the American Presbyterian Mission in Shanghai was tolerably peaceful. From across the fence drifted a medley of sounds: the shrill screams of a little Chinese girl whose feet were being bound for the first time; the cries in the Roman Catholic insane asylum ; the chatter of Seventh-Day Baptists; the heavy snores of the local opium addict...
...shouldered Ensign Adolf Kiefer, who began breaking world backstroke records ten years ago, helped Wally Ris build up a top-heavy 46-point team total for the Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Center. With strokes to spare, Kiefer copped his pet 150-yd. backstroke event and the 300-yd. individual medley. Cracked 26-year-old Adolf Kiefer to himself when he banged his funny bone against the side of the pool on the last leg of the backstroke: "What am I doing in here anyway? I'm too old for this sort of thing...
...this lush setting, the conference was actually a medley of conferences: Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt conferred on overall plans; Eden and Molotov with Stettinius on preliminary plans for Germany and liberated Europe; Admiral Kuznetsov, the Red Army's Deputy Chief of Staff Antonev, Marshal of Aviation Kutyarov with Britain's General Brooke, Field Marshal Wilson, Admiral Cunningham and the U.S. military (see U.S. AT WAR) on final war plans. Stalin had much the smallest staff (the joint announcement listed twelve Britons, 13 Americans, only eight Russians in attendance on the Big Three...
...Land! (book by Walter Kerr; produced by the Theater Guild) is a songbook history of American life. Combining folk music with Tin Pan Alley tunes, it warbles its way across the centuries-the voice of a canoeman floating down the Ohio, a chorus raised in an Illinois clearing, a medley of tunes on a Mississippi steamboat, a soldiers' rouse round a Civil War campfire, the guttural throb of Negro blues, the frilly ditties of the Gay Nineties, the brash rhythms of speakeasy jazz...
...multitudinous fans, which last week celebrated its tenth birthday. Down Beat lacks the dignity of its chief rival, Metronome. It lacks the pure devotion to hot jazz of such earnest little sheets as The Jazz Record. But Down Beat is certainly the most faithful reflection of the whole noisy medley of U.S. dance music, from the blues to the samba, from the mechanical to the inspired. And Down Beat, with a wartime paid circulation of 87,000, is a highly successful ten-year...