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Seven Days Leave (RKO-Radio). In this musical lalapalooza, it is Private View tor Mature's business to woo and wed Lucille Ball during his brief army leave, in order to fulfill a codicil in eccentric Grandfather's will and inherit $100,000. The various soldierly and legal comics who help him are so neolithic that Mr. Mature at his best seems no worse than a particularly acute touch of Hodgkin's disease. Lucille Ball looks patient, tired, a little frightened. As her young sister, 17-year-old Newcomer Marcy McGuire makes a charming jitterbug for those...
...private at South Carolina's Fort Jackson: Woo Eng Bunker, grandson of Eng, one of Phineas T. Barnum's original Siamese twins (Eng & Chang...
...hoped," the new communiqué intoned, "that the Governor General of Madagascar would allow the British command to take such steps as they considered necessary in order to deny to the Axis . . . facilities ... in the island." A report said the British, after their first attack, had attempted to woo French colonial administrators with honeyed words and attractive trade agreements. The British had also promised that pensions and salaries to all French officials would continue after the British took over. Renewed military operations were an admission that the courtship, tainted with a strong odor of appeasement, had been a failure...
...Received uncomprehending feminine stares to slangy suggestions: "Like to pitch a little woo, baby...
...four second round matches played since Thursday, Hyde, Varsity number 2 man, had a real struggle defeating Bob Feinberg, and the final scores were 8-6, 14-12. In the other three, Wally MacDonad beat Wang D. Woo 3E, 6-2, 6-3; Charles P. Stewart took Irbin Wright 6-2, 6-4; and Ted Rowse triumphed over Ken Scribner...