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Scarcely breaking stride, Bing Crosby loped off with a blue ribbon for meeting the Treasury emergency in song. With Connie Boswell, on his Kraft Music Hall hour Thursday night (NBC Red, 9 to 10), he plugged the pleasantest of 1941's patriotic ditties, Irving Berlin's Any Bonds Today? (copyrighted by Henry Morgenthau Jr.), with a brand-new verse...
...most unknown singers the chance never comes in a lifetime. But it came to short, plump-cheeked, 23-year-old Astrid Varnay-the chance to stride the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in a big part. Soprano Lotte Lehmann fell ill, Soprano Varnay donned the blond wig and nightie of Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre. Though she had never appeared on any stage, she sang that hapless housewife's role with such easy assurance that critics all but ho-yo-to-hoed...
...Bellboys of Lowell hit their stride as they easily handed the Funsters their second defeat of the year, 42 to 6. Thompson of Lowell scored twice as many points as the Dunster team combined and was followed closely by his teammate Sachs with 10 points...
...business of creating such a merchant fleet would send a lesser man than Jerry Land gibbering to the hills. He takes it all in stride, mightily helped by craggy, pipe-smoking fellow Commissioner Howard L. Vickery, who is largely responsible for construction. This week Jerry Land felt good about production, but a little wary too. Like any other defense administrator, he didn't know when he might be called to the White House, chucked under the chin and told to step up his shipbuilding still further for the sake of some ally...
With Roosevelt II the Colonel really hit his stride. Nor was he concerned when he was caught in outright manufacture of anti-Roosevelt shockers. A Tribune story in 1936 showed a ragpicker in a gutter scooping up Roosevelt buttons which Party workers presumably could not persuade anybody to wear. The Colonel did not apologize when the Chicago Times ran a full-page spread in which the Tribune's ragpicker re-enacted the button scene which he claimed a Tribune reporter paid him 25? to fake. Nor did the Colonel try to collect a $5,000 reward by the Times...