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Rogers had only a yard edge on Barnes at the finish, and the Crimson merman's time was well under five minutes, his best clocking at this distance. In the trial heat which he won, Dave turned in a 5:02.3 quarter-mile, also better than any previous effort...
Among the Canteen's visitors have been Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duchess of Windsor (same evening), Lord & Lady Halifax, Herbert Hoover. Among its 300 entertainers each week have been Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Grace Moore, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman. Other tidbits...
...what sort of "load" the song was delivering, were responsible for a change in the lyrics from "There's another big load" to "There's another dirt load." Within two months of this Nice-Nellyism, the song's sale rose to 50,000 copies. Ethel Merman's Victor recording sold 80,000 discs and kept on going. The U.S. Army morale division ordered 25,000 copies. By last week, members of the U.S. Army themselves had flooded Bandleader Lopez' mail with more than 600 uninhibited versions of the ditty...
Something For the Boys. Ethel Merman at her peak in musicomedy at its peppiest (TIME...
...lyrics are clever, but lack the old high-style smartness of Let's Do It and You're the Top. If this means loss of power, it also suggests change of purpose: Composer Porter is gearing his tunes for Broadway productions and tailoring them for the brash Merman...