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Only one Andrews sister (LaVerne) reads music. The girls work up a number with Arranger Vic Schoen, in rehearsals in which he holds his nose and they sneer. Once they took singing lessons, but apoplectic Manager Levy stopped that, pronto, for fear they would be ruined. The sisters have also appeared in four movies, one of which, Argentina Nights, so infuriated Argentine audiences that it had to be withdrawn. The Harvard Lampoon voted this performance the "most frightening" of the year...
...wage boosts. But to the Navy there was only one real issue. In a stabilization agreement with the Office of Production Management last July, the building trades had promised that there would be no strikes on defense work. The pledge had been broken. The Navy got tough, pronto...
...approved the release of brass for lamps and lipstick holders, disapproved release of brass for religious medals that the Holy Name Society wanted to give Catholic soldiers. When the news seeped out last week, six tons of "high brass" were released for medals pronto...
...work his triple miracle by means not so much miraculous as tyrannical. Faced with increasing sabotage by Frenchmen who don't believe in the Pétain miracles, he set up special courts ordered to hear cases within ten days of arrests, to carry out death sentences pronto, without appeal...
Whether he will get it pronto is another matter. Sentiment in the Finance Committee seems to favor lowering exemptions, reviving mandatory joint returns. The Senate is resigned to a stiffer tax schedule than the House had stomach for. How big it will be, and where the money will come from, is anybody's guess...