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Campaigning for a seventh term as Jersey City's mayor, cherub-cheeked Frank Hague rallied patriots to assist him in beating off foreign invasion. Roared the mayor reassuringly: "I am able to safeguard the lives of women and children...
Franz Lehar, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow, still lives in Vienna. His friends say he cannot get out. He has paid out millions of marks to safeguard his wife, a "non-Aryan." But most of the other men who wrote Vienna's waltzes in better days are now in the U.S. and last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall a concert of Viennese music, from Mozart to Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time, testified to their presence...
...show always has an impromptu atmosphere on the air and has a bad habit of running long, as Bing never holds a full rehearsal. If anything goes wrong, Bing's trigger-quick tongue is a certain safeguard. Recently, when Guest Jackie Cooper dropped his drummer's sticks during an act, Bing filled in with: "Hold the phone, there's been a nasty accident." For his solos, Bing has had one or two rehearsals with the band to get the timing, merely pulls out his pipe and tucks his gum against his teeth when the time comes...
...lines, but it is becoming increasingly clear that fifty destroyers already swapped are not enough to ensure British naval supremacy. With more capital ships than it can use and less destroyers than it needs, the unbalanced Royal Navy is unable to provide an adequate number of light boats to safeguard the LendLease shipping. Like the R. A. F. they are superbly performing a tremendous task--unlike their comrades of the air, they are falling short of successful defense. England is having trouble delivering and receiving the goods...
This hesitation is meeting with increased pressure from the U. S. as the problem of hemisphere security becomes urgent. To safeguard hemisphere security the U. S. has recently established as listening posts 20 new consulates. 17 of them in Latin America, two in west Africa and the last in Cape Verde Islands between the two continents. But the U. S. also needs air and naval bases throughout Latin America and has been trying to get them since last summer. The U. S. holds that these bases are essential to hemisphere defense, but Latin America fears that they may be used...