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...Cheers. As the Legion's advance guard arrived this week, Legionnaires seemed a little puzzled by all the todo. They talked mostly about business. They had 800 resolutions to consider, ranging from veterans' housing to immigration. In Madison Square Garden and the 71st Infantry Regiment Armory, they would listen to a whole flock of headline speakers: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Air Forces' Tooey Spaatz, Defense Secretary James Forrestal, New York's Governor Tom Dewey, and Britain's Captain Sir Ian Fraser, president of the British Legion...
Despite all this todo, polls showed that, though a majority of U.S. women disliked the new styles, all but a handful planned to wear them. Oldsters recalled that there had been a furor, too, over the hobble skirt of the early 1900s and the above-the-knee skirt of the '20s, yet fashion had prevailed...
Early one morning this week, New York's harbor was a well-planned bedlam of whistles, sirens and bells. Fireboats spouted their best special-occasion cascades. Amid this welcoming todo, the Cunarder Queen Elizabeth, spick & span in a new coat of red, white and black paint, nosed past the Statue of Liberty, headed up the Hudson. At 7:33 a.m., she tied up at Pier 90, ending her maiden commercial voyage across the North Atlantic. Henceforth the 1,031-ft., 83,673-ton Queen Elizabeth will sail weekly between New York and Southampton (the Queen Mary is still being...
...Dancer Harold Lang (Fancy Free) and wryly imperious, tonily shrill Brenda Forbes, a kind of Class B Lillie. But otherwise, Three to Make Ready is a very wet box of matches-a bathroom sketch whose humor is even more out of date than the plumbing, an interminable Sad Sack todo, a facile take-off on Oklahoma!, comments by a grimly recurrent radio comic named Arthur Godfrey. Everything considered, Three to Make Ready would have done far better to confine itself to Bolger and a backdrop...
...Germans, the one move in Russia which made complete sense was a move for peace. Granted no indication whatsoever that he could have peace without defeat, Hitler apparently was about to order his armies into battle and death. There seemed nothing else for him and for them todo...