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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operetta was produced in 1882--"Dido and Aeneas." This work, based on the "Aeneid," a work which all the undergraduates had to know cold in those days, included both original and borrowed music and went as far afield as Philadelphia. In 1918, the first show on the modern, grand scale was produced--"Barnum Was Right." The author was Robert E. Sherwood...
...Long Road. These manifestations were not spontaneous. They were the work of three well-disciplined underground movements, organized on a national scale, with astonishingly large followings among Italian workers. Last March representatives of these organizations-the liberal Partita d'Azione, the socialist and the communist parties-met to discuss a united underground front, later established a "Committee of Action for the Union of the Italian People...
...boats nudged each other in the two-dock harbor which can load only six at a time. Escanaba had more than the weather to complain about: only recently WPB stopped work on a $58,000,000 War Department program to enlarge Escanaba loading facilities, and to provide a large-scale alternative route in case bombs or sabotage knocked...
...into action in Memorial Hall at 10 o'clock tonight. Weeks of planing and waiting will end as Mal Rallett's orchestra plays soft backgrounds for "request" vocals by young Torry Russell, and the festivities will continue for four hours before the end of the season's last large scale formal dance...
...Furthermore, said he, the American fighting spirit is based on American productive power ("the greatest in the world"), and bombing is the way to destroy that power. General Sato then added a qualification which was scarcely noticed by the U.S. press: such raids must be on a big scale, they will require big preparations, and the preparations will take time. In brief, the Japanese should not expect their bombers to attack the U.S. right away...