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Next week we're installing a turnstile and conducting guided tours at 10, 2, and 4. Meanwhile, the guy who swiped my April Action Comies had better bring it back or I won't go to the USO after the May issue...
...Hope, in his native England on a USO tour, dropped into the town of Hitchin for a cozy dish of tea with grandfather James, planned to help him celebrate his 100th birthday next month...
About 800 civilian students are expected in the College this summer, it is pointed out, and many classes will therefore find great teachers lecturing to a handful of listeners. The gap could be filled by servicemen, who might get actual tickets to specific classes through the USO or a similar agency. In this way the number of men at a given class would not get out of hand, and no man would get to more than his share of classes...
...does not have to go far to find the proper method for handling the problem of admission limitations. The established USO agencies in Boston, which take care of other tickets for service-men, could also issue tickets for specific classes here. In this way, each man could be limited as to the number of classes he might attend and no class would have more visitors than it could easily accomodate in unused seats. Nor would the fact that lectures are pointed at men who have previous knowledge of the context necessarily hamper the success of the plan. Experience with...
...Yankee Clipper, dropping down to a river landing at Lisbon, skimmed the water with a wing tip, suddenly burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident...