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...week, as the U.S. sped work on its Caribbean rampart, from Bermuda to British Guiana, the U.S. Navy was busy on further defenses to the Panama Canal. While the first U.S. draft of soldiers for the Lend-Lease base in Bermuda shoved off from Brooklyn, Rear Admiral Frank H. Sadler, commanding the Fifteenth (Canal Zone) Naval District, told newsmen of growing dumps of supplies and equipment at Balboa, the great naval base on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal...
...Daniel, wound up their primary campaigns. This year, from Lee O'Daniel's troupe, two star attractions were weaned away: crooning Banjo Player Leon Huff and Steel Guitarist Kermit ("Horace the Love Bird") Whalen. They joined the company of snuff-dipping, wisecracking Candidate Gerald Anthony ("Jerry") Sadler, 32, onetime bellhop, now a member of the Texas Railroad Commission. The other four candidates were...
...worth it. At last count, 53% of the votes were for Lee O'Daniel (making a run-off primary unlikely). Also-rans in order: Colonel Thompson, Commissioner Hines, Ma Ferguson, Jerry Sadler, "Cyclone" Davis...
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (Sadler's Wells Orchestra, Constant Lambert conducting; Victor: six sides). Beautifully recorded excerpts, some new on discs, from one of the great classic ballets...
Texas Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sadler announced a plan for setting the Rio Grande on fire, to protect the U. S. against invasion from Mexico: "If only 20 wells would turn oil into the Rio Grande and the oil was then set afire, it would be impossible for any invading army to cross...