Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fragments, pay the Red Cross $5 every time they cannot find any. They also bet on the type of fragments they will dig out of wounds. Among their findings (all made in the U.S.): parts of Ford automobiles; nuts & bolts. Out of one soldier's body came a Singer sewing machine screwdriver. One night when the doctors and nurses had amputations on every table, they donated their own blood...
...Alley turned out a song for the Free French-I'm a Soldier of De Gaulle, by the French-descended radio singer Conrad Thibault (published by Mills Music, Inc.). United Free France (De Gaulle agency in the U.S.) accepted the song as "official." Copies were sent to General de Gaulle in London, to Free French headquarters in Beirut (Syria) and Brazzaville (French Equatorial Africa). Sample English chorus...
...espionage pictures. Saboteurs and spies, old barns and Long Island villas, unbreakable codes and secret inks all play their usual part in this drama of intrigue. But in adding to these the skillful directing of Tim Whelan and the international atmosphere engendered by Ilona Massey as a Scandinavian singer, Boris Karloff as a Sherlock from the "Yard," and George Brent as an ex-All-American calling signals for the F.B.I., Hollywood has produced a show which proves that the capable handling of an old line can still provide an enjoyable evening. Done with skill and a restraint which forbids long...
Water colours, etchings and drawings of three modern American artists, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and John La Farge play a prominent part in the exhibition now on display in the Fogg Art Museum...
Mickey Rooney, who would rather be caught dead than underplaying, has his hands full when he encounters bright-eyed Judy Garland. He is one of a trio of hopeful hoofers billed as The Three Balls of Fire. She is a would-be singer. Their careers are joined when he offers to produce a show for the benefit of some settlement children who need a month in the country; they are jolted when his professedly philanthropic activities (the show is for his benefit, too) cease to remind her of Lincoln freeing the slaves...