Word: strays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jascha Heifetz: Violin Solos (Decca, 8 sides). The top classical artist to stray from Victor or Columbia, during the 14 months when Decca had made its peace with Petrillo and the big two had not. So far, Heifetz has played such banalities as White Christmas and Largo al Factotum for Decca. Now, in his first Decca album, Heifetz puts his cool gloss on bits & pieces from Ravel, Debussy, Godowsky and others. Performance: good...
...minor ways Mr. Strauss has its rewards: Virginia MacWatters-bright coloratura, stray bits of George Balanchine choreography, Harold Lang's dancing. But these things merely relieve the monotony; they do not redeem the show...
After Buna, Eichelberger trained troops in Australia until he got back into action again at Hollandia, took the vital New Guinea port with deftness and speed. The Japs were hit where they weren't at Hollandia, but there were enough stray units around to infiltrate Eichelberger's command post by night...
...prosaic household hints in the back pages draw better. Best draw of all is plastic surgery. Says Porter drily: "From where I sit, it seems that no one in America likes his own face." Hearst's Concern. The American Weekly's world of tomorrow probably will never stray too far from the world of Goddard, since old William Randolph Hearst keeps a dimming eye on the Weekly's ways. He bombards Porter daily with telegrams and letters, story ideas for the future and critiques on past issues. Latest Hearst concern (which was also one of his earliest...
This partially solved jigsaw puzzle still left out some stray pieces: the Army's Seventh Fighter Command, a part of the Seventh Air Force, is based mostly on Iwo Jima and under Navy command. It escorts not MacArthur's nor Nimitz' planes over Japan, but Spaatz...