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Before he settled down to his assignment, the Beaver detoured back to Miami Beach for a short rest. The Florida climate is beneficial to his asthma. It also inspired the Beaver to broadcast to his fellow Canadians his passionate conviction that the United Nations' No. 1 battlefront is Russia, where supplies and men must be rushed for a "deadly, offensive stroke." Giving a Beaverish twist to the Beatitudes, the welterweight lord declared: "Unless we have resolute, determined, brave citizens trained to handle the tanks and guns . . . then we cannot be blessed, we cannot be the peacemakers, we cannot inherit...
...women thronged in uncountable thousands to sewing classes-held by mailorder houses, department stores, schools. More than 150 radio stations were using the sewing-instruction leaflets (ten lessons) published by the National Needlecraft Bureau. Typical stunt: L. S. Ayres, big Indianapolis department store, four weeks ago changed its Tuesday broadcast from Shopping Service of the Air to Ayres' Sewing School of the Air. One radio announcement brought 1,811 applicants in three days, 3,000 by the end of the week. The class had to close with an additional 3,000 clamoring to participate...
What caused the ensuing uproar was Curtin's indignation at a BBC broadcast announcing that Casey had accepted the new post. In conversations with Downing Street, Curtin had indicated that, although the choice was up to Casey, the Australian Government preferred that he remain in Washington. Curtin promised a White Paper on the affair and complained: "I learn what my Minister has done from the world at large...
Chicago's Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (The Red Network) Dilling sued her husband Albert, his lawyer and Walter Winchell for $1,000,000 damages. Grounds: Albert, in bringing a countersuit for divorce, had made charges against her which he later withdrew, but not before Winchell had broadcast them...
Leinsdorf became the Met's leading German conductor in 1939, and has broadcast with the N. B. C. Orchestra and other musical groups as well as leading Wagnerian productions with the New York company. On various occasions he has stepped from his German role to conduct Italian and French opera...