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Product of Broadway Tunesmith Sunny Skylar (real name Selig Shaftel), vocalist with Vincent Lopez' band, Move It Over at first did not impress Boss Lopez. When Skylar prevailed upon him to play it once as an experiment at Manhattan's Taft Grill, the audience seemed to agree with the bandleader. But later he dug it out again for a program at Camp Upton, L.I., and the doughboys...
...peaceful Seine also drew foreigners. The self-mutilated genius Vincent Van Gogh, a Dutchman, painted the Seine's golden Bridge at Asniéres. From the U.S. came Painter Frank Boggs, from England (in 1817) the short-lived Bonington, who painted the exhibition's orange-tinted view of Mantes...
Millions of loyal radio fans will miss them. So will Henry Ford, who writes fan letters, J. Edgar Hoover, James Thurber, Vincent Astor, and countless others whose addiction approaches that of the late Arthur Brisbane, who sometimes telephoned breathlessly after the broadcast to find out what would happen in the next episode...
...Lunts had a very good thing in Stephen Vincent Benet's story of the Nativity for Cavalcade and they did better by it. Benet drew a parallel between the birthtime of Christ and World War II. Herod was Gauleiter of Egypt, and the Romans his masters. Middle-aged Alfred Lunt kept the inn of the Nativity and spoke for all adaptable World War II innkeepers...
...found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...