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With even more subtlety-for this was over her audience's head-she took a crack at racial snobbery. She referred, without elaboration, to "the Gobineaus and the Houston Chamberlains"-meaning the Comte de Gobineau (1816-82), one of the first racists, who in Essai sur I' Inégalité des Races Humaines argued that only the white races are capable of creating culture; of Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1926), the fantastic Englishman who married Richard Wagner's daughter Eva, and wrote that Germany is the master race...
...western Europe. By night the moon was full and by day the mists were gone from R.A.F. and U.S. airdromes. Earthbound for many days, four-engined U.S. Fortresses and Liberators soared up from Britain and flew 180 miles into France-to the Nazi air and railway center at Romilly-Sur-Seine, 65 miles southeast of Paris and the farthest into German Europe that U.S. bombers had yet ventured...
...explosion in a chemical plant at Fontaine-sur...
...astonishing surprises on us in the way of forecasts, one of the best of which was an announcement that we might expect the weather to be "squoggy"), was asked by a worried pilot, en route to England, for the weather conditions in the English Channel. He announced solemnly "Gremlins sur la Manche," and left it at that. Further efforts by the pilot to get an explanation were met by a stony silence...
...Blue program series, The Ontario Show, was piped in from Toronto (Fri. 7 p.m. E.W.T.), presenting Colonel Stoopnagle, in the interests of U.S.-Canadian good will, cutting up with heavenly Madeleine Carroll and a nice Canadian contralto. Another, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s Sur les Boulevards, began on the Blue last Thursday (8:30 p.m. E.W.T...