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Adolphe Menjou, for nearly two decades one of the cinema's slickest dressers, got back from a four-and-a-half-month USO tour of England, North Africa and Sicily - where he reported there were mosquitoes as big as pigeons. Tanned and thinner, he wore a threadbare royal blue outfit, white shirt, red tie with speckled stripes, khaki sweater, green socks, an exhausted artificial carnation...
...Edward C. Camper and Miss Barbara Oldham of Hyde Park, Mass., made it a Cambridge wedding when they were united by Chaplain Owen Eames of the staff of the Chaplain School in Gore Hall. The USO can take credit for their happy state, for they met at a USO dance in Milton a year ago. Mrs. Camper is also living in Cambridge...
...Oscar "for humanity," for a record-breaking 562 benefits in two years. Probably the first entertainer to work with the armed forces, Hope has also been the most frequent. Using trains, cars, trucks, tanks, jeeps, Hope has played in virtually every U.S. camp, last fall hopped off with his USO team (Singer Frances Langford, Guitarist Tony Romano, Comic Jerry Colonna) to tour Alaska. When, at the last moment, it looked as if the tour would fall through, Hope wired Lieut. General Simon B. Buckner: WE SING, DANCE, TELL STORIES; HAVE TUXEDOS; WILL TRAVEL; CAN WE PLAY YOUR CIRCUIT? They played...
...USO performers (including Tamara) were killed in the Lisbon Clipper crash...
...played with a Chicago orchestra, and joined the Navy in November, 1941, serving a year at the Naval Air Station in Alaska before receiving his commission. He claims music as his business, and can teach any instrument; although playing the trombone for the band. He also played for a USO troupe show before joining...