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...Forces can send wherever the enemy is in reach. Operations with this one squadron are bound to be limited. But, from North Africa, the U.S. flyers can range over the Near East, Russia's southern front, the Axis fringe of Mediterranean Europe. The bombs on Ploeşti, the blows at Italy's shrinking fleet, can well be the heralds of a major U.S. air offensive...
...Guards' Band blared out God Save The King and Yugoslavia's Bozhe Pravde, ti shto spase (God of justice, Thou who saves us). Then, when the crowd expected the Internationale, it was staggered to hear the band continue with old community-singing favorites...
Macbetto was Baritone Jess Walters, a 32-year-old Brooklynite of modest stature but big voice. Philadelphian Florence Kirk, 27, as his indomitable Lady, prowled and strode upstage & down, drove her soprano hard, managed by sheer intensity to make Via, ti dico, o maledetta! sound as if it really were Out, damned spot...
...Songs by Captain Pearl Nye, a jovial, bearded, retired canal-boatman; a cook in Livingston, Ala. named Vera Hall; a fake blind man and his fake gypsy wife from Texas, who in 1909 sang for Mr. Lomax the now famous Whoopee Ti yi yo, Git Along Little Dogies...
Little Brother. Chen Cheng is certainly a favorite. He is the only one of Chiang Kai-shek's generals whom the Generalissimo addresses by the Chinese diminutive, ti, "little brother." He rivals much-talked-of General Hu Tsung-nan, leader of the influential "Whampoa Clique," as candidate to succeed the Generalissimo. He and Hu are the only two generals who are permitted to receive orders direct from the Generalissimo without the countersignature of politically powerful Minister for War Ho Ying-chin...