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...Victor Herbert music is nice but hardly notable. The book, jokes and horseplay are not only antiquated for 1945 but were probably no better than average for 1906. Yet this production has the disarming trait of not trying to bridge the years. It makes no effort to scrape any of the red mildew off The Red Mill. Hence the show is an amiable relic. It is frankly a horsecar- not a horsecar pretending...
...week armored cars clattered through the streets to the Quirinal Palace and heavily armed carabinieri doubletimed to the piazza in front of Crown Prince Umberto's spreading, magnificent home. The common man ran for cover; he did not want to be caught in the middle of a shooting scrape. Actually there was no shooting: it was just more protection for Umberto after a series of antimonarchy demonstrations by the hotheaded, leftish Republican Youth Movement...
Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee all but completed his Government. But he had had to scrape the Labor Party barrel for experienced talent...
...Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk and Army Nurse Corps Superintendent Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield scrape the bottom of the barrel for nurses [TIME, Nov. 20], let them ponder the fact that there are several thousand registered men nurses in this country legally denied membership in the Army Nurse Corps...
Rundstedt's plan by now was clear. He had made a historic throw of the dice and his prize was time. If successful in disrupting the Allies' armies, he could win six months-six months to scrape up combat manpower, while German scientists and technicians hurried to develop their new V-weapons...