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Patrice Munsel, 20-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was the principal tea leaf in a teapot tempest of publicity just before she made her West Coast debut at Hollywood Bowl. The United Press reported the Met aswoon with shame because pictures had been published of her in a bra-suit. Manager Edward Johnson denied it, peered at the picture, purred, "She looks nice." Clucked Singer Munsel: "I thought it made me look a little bulky in spots...
...Gaekwar of Baroda, 36, plump, pleasure-bent potentate who rules 3,000,000 Indians, stirred up a tempest in Bombay teapots when he got top air priority to fly to England with his aide-de-camp for "health reasons." Scores of long-service British officers, waiting wearily for passage, on the crowded homeward bound planes, knew that the Gaekwar was going to England to race his stable, that his "aide-de-camp" was his champion jockey...
...costumes for the present production are Elizabethan, but simple, unlike the gilt edged robes that marred an otherwise stylized "Tempest," or the even more plushy ones of Maurice Evans' "Macbeth...
...Loud criticism of the Allied war strategy (in 1943 he wanted emphasis shifted to the Pacific, said he was "unable to agree" with Winston Churchill). ¶ A bulldoggish attitude about Army promotions ("I'm not going to just rubber-stamp everything they bring up"). ¶ A miniature political tempest when a rival in the 1942 campaign charged that a Louisville contractor had built a swimming pool in his backyard as a gift. (Happy was cleared...
...clear that the Jap command had resorted to a defense as macabre to Western minds as it was typically Japanese. There was no question that the harakiri tactic of Kamikaze (Divine Tempest) airmen had been adopted as a chief effort. There were strong indications that it had become the major hope of a defense of desperation...