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Burial arrangements were in charge of one of the most unfunereal of U.S. authors - Lyle Saxon, whose literary merit (Old Louisiana, Fabulous New Orleans, Children of Strangers) has long been overshadowed by his reputation as a wit and New Orleans host. Assisting WPA's George Field in preparing the final report on all WPA activity in the 48 States, Saxon hoped to write FINIS to the Federal Writers' Project within a short time...
...total expenditure of $27,189,370, the Project published enough written matter to fill seven 12 -ft. shelves in the library of the Department of the Interior. Even this mammoth collection is incomplete. Author Saxon, as executor, could draw up this inventory...
...Churchill did not have to go to Africa to bring General Giraud and General de Gaulle together. But the conflict between Giraud and De Gaulle was indicative of a basic disagreement between U.S. and British foreign policies. Expressive of the disgust which U.S.-backed policies inspired in many Anglo-Saxon minds was a false news bulletin, dated Jan. 7, 1945, which a wit posted in no less a place than Allied Headquarters in Algiers. It read...
...Schnabel gives one of Beethoven's greatest concertos a thorough workout. As a teammate, the late Frederick Stock is somewhat heavy-footed. Result: though distinguished, it still leaves the prize to Schnabel's older Victor recording with the London Philharmonic, or to Pianist Walter Gieseking and the Saxon State Orchestra (Columbia...
Bashed in the nose diplomatically, the Axis plugged new life into its propaganda machine. The theme: Batista's remarks are a warning that "the Anglo-Saxon empires are planning to use Spain to create a new base against the Axis powers." Axis broadcasts spread a report that Juan Negrin, last premier of the Spanish Republic, had arrived in Morocco from Britain (where, last week, he was still living quietly in Hertfordshire), to build a political pre-invasion bridgehead to Spain. On more solid ground, a Berlin broadcast aligned "Franco Spain" with "National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy, Laval France...