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...nature, worked hard to make the fleet feel at home. A U.S. sailor's white hat was enough to get him free streetcar rides, free tickets for movies; wine was on the house in many flamenco joints. No one took exception to U.S.N. wolf-whistles at the señoritas. The Falangist Informacion Nacional helpfully printed, in its own enthusiastic English, the complete text of President Truman's State of the Union "Speack." Falangist party bigwigs were ordered not to wear their black uniforms, or to give their Fascist salute while visiting U.S. ships...
...know how the orchestra was ever able to follow his obscure beat. But his music, fresh and invigorating, gave ample proof that he is one of the five or six really significant composers in the United States today. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Copland concerns himself with melodies per se; his compositions usually contain several good tunes, but not much depth of feeling...
...sparring partner for boxer Max Baer. Baer moved on to Hollywood as a slapstick comedian; Owen left him and started up the sawdust trail as an evangelist. As Owen explains it, Jesus came down one night to call him to the pulpit. Jesus said "Come on Jerry, I'se got sumpin' for you--I'm gone make you a fisher of men." Then Jesus dropped into the background to brush up on his grammar, and Jerry Owen baited his hook...
After meeting Spain's First Lady, Hearst Columnist Cobina Wright noted her impressions of Señora Carmen Polo de Franco: "In her lack of affectation, she reminded me much of our own Mrs. Truman. I told her as much and she replied that this was a great compliment . . . She told me something of her household routine. 'Every night after dinner, if there is no official function, the Generalissimo and I sit quietly at home . . . My husband does not smoke or drink, except for an occasional glass of wine with dinner. Then, too, every night there...
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore received two VIPatients. After a visit to the White House to sign the Philippine-U.S. defense pact, President Elpidio Quirino hustled over to a four-room suite for a check on how he was recovering from last year's kidney-stone operation. Señora Maria Delgado Odria, wife of Peru's President, arrived for a thorough physical exam...