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Timeless Buffoon Durante had a superb foil in the Metropolitan Opera's strapping Wagnerian Soprano, Helen Traubel. From his first baffled exclamation at seeing her in Brünnhilde's armor ("Holy smoke, she's been drafted!"), through a passage from Die Walküre (in which Durante was a voiceless, baffled Siegmund), to his piteous attempts to pin a corsage on her coat of mail, Durante brilliantly played the role of a frustrated longhair...
...Koreans, was not given up without a fight. The Reds were dug in and well concealed on a slope overlooking a blown bridge. They expected to shoot up the approaching U.S. force when it stopped to ponder ways & means of getting across the stream. But the U.S. column was armor-tipped, and the tanks apparently panicked two of the waiting North Koreans; they broke from their foxholes and ran. That gave the Red play away. The U.S. tanks splashed across the stream while doughfeet swarmed across the bridge's torn girders. The Reds who stayed in their holes were...
...supply services. In fire power, unit for unit, French and Communist forces are evenly matched. Ho now has heavy artillery, no air force. But the Communists are building airfields on both sides of the Chinese border. A French airman has reported seeing six or seven enemy armored cars or tanks at Caobang. French armor is old and in bad repair...
...Gloves Off. With the mayor's power in his hands, Impy managed to keep clanking effectively in his homemade shining armor. Last week he had the wit to jail hundreds of astoundingly puny hoodlums on the ground that they imperiled the sanctity of the polls. He announced that he had been forced to "take off the gloves." Tammany, he cried, was controlled, lock, stock & barrel, by Big Gambler Frank Costello, and Pecora was nothing but Costello's mouthpiece...
...heard these proposals a hundred times. The Russians know that they are no basis for serious negotiations. We can't touch anything that doesn't first off promise free elections in all Germany . . . The Russians are speculating on finding weak spots in the Western armor, and they may well find them...