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...such effect. That night bombs went off all over the city, and Guardia patrols raced through the streets. No one was hurt; no property damaged. In a downtown doorway, an oldtime U.S. marine, who had stayed on with his Nicaraguan wife after the U.S. occupation in the 'sos, picked his teeth and said knowingly: "The Guardia's setting them off to see if it can push the opposition into playing its hand." In a nearby bar, another ex-marine had it differently. "Naw," he countered, "it's the opposition; they're just tossing bombs to study...
...Plane to Bizet. Last week, Regina Resnik heard the familiar SOS again. At 2 o'clock in the morning, the telephone rang in her Manhattan hotel suite. Could she be in Montreal the next day to sing the title role in Bizet's Carmen? Soprano Winifred Hieidt had been taken ill in Chicago. Regina had sung the role in French only once, two years ago. She was still tired from a trip to Colorado, where she had sung Leonore in 13 performances of Beethoven's Fidelia. But by 2 p.m. she was on a plane for Canada...
Other divisions of TIME Inc. also borrow him in times of crisis - such as last week's SOS from the Paris printer of one of our overseas editions for a plane-sped package of extender (ink dryer). He has even been useful in getting people to work. Recently, one of our researchers injured a kneecap and another, who had just recovered from a broken leg, offered to lend the invalid her idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped...
...V.D.M.T.- "V.D.M.T.-" G.I.s in Europe, hearing these cryptic initials aired again & again over the American Forces Network, were intrigued. They were supposed to be. Captain Frank Danzig, peacetime CBS man, dreamed up the V.D.M.T. in response to an Army SOS...
...Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford-lumbered into the studio, stared at his unshaven assemblage and lazily "sparked" (alerted) them with his pinkie finger. They played a few tired bars to warm up. Then Brick, his barrel-stomach protruding under a striped sweat shirt, gave his final orders: "We'll take SOS [Same Old Sheaves]. On the last two bars, Charlie, make it bumpa, bumpa, some Charleston, then a brrrrooom. O.K., we're rolling...