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Satisfied that there was some cheating, the Mayor loosed his first attack against three clubs: tiny La Vie Parisienne (which seats 75 people, calls itself "the most intimate room in the city"), alleged to owe $13,693 in back city taxes; big, garish Copacabana (which The New Yorker recently described as "life in a boiler factory") allegedly owing $37,370; and the Stork Club, top playground of all, allegedly owing...
...Britain, where women are a common sight, eleven male stars (Cinemactors Hope, Crosby, Tracy, Cagney, Gable, Bogart, Abbott & Costello, Rooney, Grant, Kaye) are as popular as any female. In Iceland, oddly enough, five males vie with Miss Grable...
...Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, ace German military commentator, admitted in a somber radio analysis for his people that the enemy was "at the gates" of the Fatherland, that Germany was facing vast attacks on three fronts by Allied forces superior in men and materials. Other spokesmen seemed almost to vie with each other in gloom...
Quartet: The moo-hoo-vie industry...
...passive, unarmed revolt led to savage repression. The Japs arrested, tortured, executed the Committee of 33; they flogged 11,000 other Koreans. The rocky Asian peninsula at Japan's back door, where China and Russia had vied for influence and may vie again, became a land of silent people...