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...Face It! (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Vinton Freedley) is the first musical of the season to stir the critics to half-hysterical admiration. The show, a good routine musical, didn't fully rate it, but its headliner, mop-haired, magic-tongued Danny Kaye, did. Last season, in Lady in the Dark, he was almost brand-new to Broadway, but he would have stolen the show from any one less than Gertrude Lawrence. In Let's Face It! (for which he up & quit Lady) he rides off with the show...
...officer of General Li Tsung-jen, Chen needled the Japanese so spectacularly that they made a special expedition to mop...
...blowup, but that "the swirling waters of the milewide, swamp-bordered river might have temporarily slowed the German advance." For the Russians it was a week of drainage. On boats, barges, tree trunks, rafts of boughs and oil drums, soldiers made their hasty way across the Dnieper. In their mop-up the Germans claimed 300,000 prisoners, actually took about half that many. Marshal Semion Budenny had had about 700,000 men to begin with, had suffered about 150,000 casualties-and so he extricated perhaps as many as 400,000. These were, however, disorganized by their losses...
...first German push came to a halt. After a drive of 355 miles, any Army inevitably gets its communications tangled, has to straighten them out and bring up fresh supplies. Moreover the German attack, although led by Panzer spearheads, had to be followed by infantry to mop up and take possession. Marching at even such a rapid rate as the Nazis claimed the infantry obviously could not keep up with the tanks...
...sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said by Hoover to be head of the ring and a "professional spy"; Lilly Barbara Carola Stein, mop-haired artist's model, whose tiptoe trail zigzagged from Vienna to New York, through embassies and drawing rooms. "One of the most active, extensive and vicious groups we have ever had to deal with," Mr. Hoover declared...