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Meanwhile, Atlantic City prepared for its next contest-to choose the nation's swiftest clam and oyster openers. That sounded like more...
Evergreen. Long after Honey Stromberg's death, she sang his song for Diamond Jim Brady at his oyster and beefsteak gorges at Bustanoby's. John D. Rockefeller once paid $500 to hear her sing it. In 1912, at a Weber & Fields reunion, when Lillian was 51 and over 170 lb., she was asked to do it again. As she broke, monumentally, into Come Down, My Evenin' Star, an audience including Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst, Diamond Jim Brady, Condé Nast and Charles Dana Gibson blubbered frankly over its boiled shirts...
Archie is a lean, mischievous, battered six-footer named Ed Gardner, who declares : "Your true New York mug doesn't say toity-toid or erl. He's about halfway between oyster and erster." Gardner's in dignities are delivered with a kazoo-voiced good nature which keeps everybody happy, including his victims. Three writers turn out the original script, but the final version is practically all Gardner ("The boys do a rough draft and I tear it down"). The result is grade-A American foolery...
...committee also revealed the names of several newly-appointed class officials. Albert P. Everts '44 of Winthrop House and Newtonville was chosen new head of the committee and Grover O'Neill, Jr. '44 of 5 Linden Street and Oyster Bay, L. I.; and David Baldwin '44 of Leverett House and Belmont were added to its membership. O'Neill and Baldwin were runners-up for the post in the class elections and will replace members who have left College...
...which will have to be solved: problems of supply, manifold and coordinated operations on land, in the air, on the sea. For the moment, the air offered their major opportunity. Allied planes had the edge over the Luftwaffe. Axis positions, concentrated as they are, are an airman's oyster. Axis ports are few: Bizerte, Tunis, Sousse, Sfax and Gabés-none of them large, all within 200 miles of each other, all within easy bombing range of Allied airdromes. Perhaps aircraft can lay the oyster open for earthbound troops before Tunisia dries...