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...picture mixup, TIME'S apologies to Barcelona-born U.S. Citizen Jose C. Figuerola, resident of New York City since 1918, who served as ordnance adviser to the U.S. War Department in World Wars I & II. Engineer Figuerola is not to be confused with Barcelona-born Jose Figuerola (no kin) who is labor expert for Juan Peron...
...Century-Fox lot. Still others set RKO-Pathe and the homes of Merle Oberon (cocktails) and Sam Goldwyn (dinner) in motion. At dinner, Mrs. Goldwyn's innocent remark, "Why, you're just as comfortable as an old shoe," caused the Colonel to start. Due to a luggage mixup, he was wearing brown shoes with his tuxedo...
...mixup stems from the recently passed Ivy League eligibility requirements, which go only about halfway back from wartime relaxation to the old prewar dictum of "no freshmen on the varsity squad." The hitch comes in the ruling that all veteran first-year men will be permitted to play varsity ball, despite a general policy return to the "upperclassmen only" idea...
...Annihilation. His message was soon clear enough. The dashing young general, hoping to envelop Crazy Horse, had split his regiment into three parts. But there had been a "sad and terrible" mixup. One part of the 7th had been attacked before the others joined it. It had been annihilated. The other two had then been heavily engaged, until the Sioux broke off and retreated victoriously toward the Big Horn Mountains...
...extend their uneasy truce to the northeast, the fighting at Kaiyuan seemed ominous. Chungking reported that disagreement on "fundamentals" had delayed the flight of Government-Communist-U.S. truce teams into the trouble zones. Mukden, where U.S. truce officers had arrived, was a prime exhibit in the Manchurian mixup. Items...