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...Texas' great Sam Houston. She studied singing in Europe, sang in nightspots, married a surrealist poet whose name she will not tell because he is anti-Nazi, and still in Paris. Singer Houston has been in the U. S. since 1938, is currently at Manhattan's Rainbow Room, where she performs voodoo songs by candlelight. At the Museum's opening concert she went through her routine with a pair of candles which, by order of the fire department, were enclosed in chimneys. In the darkened house Elsie Houston was something to see as she slapped...
Classically trained. Harpsichordist Marlowe learned about jazz from Purist John Henry Hammond Jr., became so good that she played an engagement last spring at Manhattan's Rainbow Room. When "Jelly Roll'' Morton, famed Negro pianist, heard one of her records, he argued: "That couldn't be a white man playing, and it certainly couldn't be a woman.'' Boogie-woogie, with its classic repeated bass figures, its percussive attack, seemed to Miss Marlowe just right for the harpsichord. Radio listeners agreed...
...only National Guard officer who kept a top U. S. Army command during World War I was Major General John Francis O'Ryan, whose 27th (Rainbow) Division helped to crack the Hindenburg Line. Mustached, militant John O'Ryan brought home a rank of medals, an avowed love of peace and a deep conviction that war is better than some kinds of peace. Now 65 and retired to his law practice in Manhattan, he recently collected money to buy munitions for Finland, begged the U. S. to declare war on Hitler, denounced peace-at-any-price...
...until he pulled even at the 27th. At the 29th, the Virginia Creeper was down again. At the 35th the match was all even once more; a 17-ft putt would put Brooke in front, with only one more hole to play. Looking heavenward in supplication, Brooke spied a rainbow arching over gloomy Mt. Equinox. "I've got a rainbow round my shoulder and I'm going to cook this putt," he drawled. To the astonishment of the gallery he did-and a few minutes later, the 20-year-old Cavalier was on the home green, intercollegiate champion...
Sedan is a fateful name to the French. There in 1870 their Second Empire fell to the Prussians. For four years the soldiers of the German Emperor held it after 1914, not to be ousted until five days before Armistice by the French and the U. S. Rainbow Division. On Tuesday afternoon the soldiers of the Third Reich entered Sedan. There was now very little hope of saving Belgium. It was a question of saving France. A further German breakthrough would imperil the whole of France's western defenses to the sea. The French rear areas were taking...