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Imperial troops west of Tobruk were almost certain that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel would resume the offensive. R.A.F. reconnaissance planes reported German tanks and infantry moving up the coast to the front at Ain-et-Tmimi. Patrols met the stiffest resistance in weeks...
...thought Ivy Anderson, the band's regular vocalist, whose racy style fits it so well, was in exceptional fettle, particularly on "I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good," which the Duke shrewdly used as his final number instead of some all-out screamer. With its varied, constantly changing orchestral background, it topped off the evening perfectly; and of course he planned it that...
...Director Archibald MacLeish of OFF declared the Axis campaign to spread discord among the United Nations to be "as shrewd, as ruthless as any plot of the Borgias." Axis radio spray to the U.S.: "American policy is dictated in Downing Street . . . will leave America holding the bag." To Brit ain: "The British Empire is dissolving like a lump of sugar in the Roosevelt teacup...
Summarized the Washington Post, in the guise of a taxi driver's opinion: "As I get it they want room for more clerks to do the work the clerks they have got ain't doing...
Musically Porgy and Bess is least good when most operatic. The top songs in Porgy and Bess-Summer Time, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', A Woman Is a Sometime Thing, It Ain't Necessarily So, the duet Bess, You Is My Woman Now-flash out like perfect stones in too heavy a setting...