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LONDON -- Britain tonight ordered men 25 and 26 years old to register for military service in April, and it was estimated that eventually they would swell Britain's rapidly expanding army by at least...
...Louis Armstrong's best numbers in a great while is "Poor Old Joe." Main reason is that it has the life and pep that the old Louis discs used to have and that none of them have had lately . . . Bing Crosby's "If I Knew Then," a swell commercial...
...much of a chance to meet many college boys. I used to abhor Harvard men, I thought them dull and conceited; that is, until I came up here to work at the Ritz roof. Since then I've completely changed my opinion because the boy's were simply swell to me then. Now I've determined that if I ever have a son I'll send him to Cambridge...
Night Music (by Clifford Odets; produced by The Group Theatre). Clifford Odets, of all people, has suddenly decided that life's a pretty swell thing. He used to be grimly up on the barricades; in Night Music he gaily rides a carrousel. He used to pump lead into Old Glory; in Night Music he almost gets round to waving her. His tortured characters used to writhe-extremely vocally-in their separate hells; in Night Music, Boy Meets Girl and ends up clasping her in his arms...
During the 1938 Easter vacation, Mme Flagstad sent John $25 to come to New York as her weekend guest. She showed him the sights of New York and let him listen from backstage at the Met to an opera in which she appeared. They had a swell time...