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...series of Sunday afternoon jam sessions at the Ken, on the corner of Tremont and Warrenton Streets, just beyond the Hotel Bradford. Last Sunday the Ken featured Pete Brown and the Jones Brothers, a local trio with an overdoes of vibraharp, with Cecil Scott's house band in the background. The same group will probably be there next Sunday. It's not particularly exciting, but it's better than Vanity Fair's Irsh Thursh or the Roseland's Al Rapp and His Oldtimers...
...continent as an invasion objective has come from a remarkable but little-known U.S. Army figure: 65-year-old Colonel Conrad H. Lanza, retired. At his home in Manchester, N.H., Colonel Lanza reads the newspapers, tunes in foreign broadcasts with a short-wave receiver, studies maps, applies the background knowledge acquired during 44 years as an army officer. Results: articles which at times have made General Staff officers gasp and wonder where Colonel Lanza was getting his "secret" information...
Charles de Gaulle is a French general with an ultraconservative Saint-Cyr background and a well-deserved reputation for being difficult to deal with; H. G. Wells has called him "an artlessly sincere megalomaniac." De Gaullism is something else again. To many & many a Frenchman, especially those inside France, De Gaullism stands for the France that never surrendered, the France that was betrayed by her leaders. General de Gaulle, the individual, derives his strength from the people of France, who are his potent political weapon...
...Edsel was always in the background. When Henry Ford confidently stated that he could build 1,000 planes a day, it was up to Edsel to prove that the company could at least build 500 planes a month at Willow Run (he lived to see the goal in sight). The teacher still created problems for the pupil to solve...
...Background of an Opportunist. Of the art of politics John Lewis is a master. No one -except himself- has ever beaten him. Now his switch back into A.F. of L., like his revolt from it in 1935, could be explained in one word: opportunism...