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...Germany and Austria are not the only ones who have a hard time getting married to local girls. I see our buddies in Japan have the same trouble. We in Europe have to start our paper work eight months before we go home and can't get married till three months prior to leaving the command...
...tour of duty in this theater is from three to four years . . . So the soldier starts living with his girl, paying her rent and taking care of her till the time comes for them to put in the paper work. Those of us who don't want to live the "sinful" life and have it on our conscience, can only get married in the local Catholic church . . . The soldier can get court-martialed for it, or shipped out of the command secretly and separated from his wife for life . . . SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD U.S.F.A. c/o Postmaster New York...
...Till Eulenspiegel (U.S. premiere), set to the raucous, good-humored music of Richard Strauss, with choreography by 27-year-old Jean Babilée (TIME, April 23). In the Babilée version, Till's merry pranks usually have their grim side, e.g., when a pretty girl spurns him, he turns her into a witch; when hunchbacked beggars welcome him to their group, he steals their money. At the end, he is saved from the chopping block by a girl who ought to know better but loves him anyway. Babilée's lithe gymnastics are the whole...
...union calls such partial closings "black weeks"). In Cleveland, the Koblenzer packing house has closed. Said its president: "Last month we killed 740 cattle and lost $6,700. They've taken my surplus, but they aren't going to get my capital. I'll sit till hell freezes over." Meat controls had created such a mess that even top Office of Price Stabilization officials were talking last week of abandoning them...
...streets, Jimmy began his career by punching a honky-tonk piano for 75? a night. After working in a score of saloons before he was 22, he graduated to a Harlem cabaret, where he played the piano for $45 a week "from eight o'clock at night till I was subconscious." The boss stifled Jimmy's attempts to be a comedian; he didn't like piano players who tried to be funny. But the comedian could not be stifled for long. In the early '20s Durante became pivot man in a wild comedy trio he formed...