Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There are parts that drag, but not too many, considering the fact that all musical revues are fated to bore some people some of the time. In these times of stress, too, Ed Wynn usually wanders on the stage of his friend, Mr. Shubert, and saves the act with an ice-cream oil slicker or his eyebrows. Eleanor Roosevelt is sure to like...
Last week the 535 men & women who had qualified for the Ben Paris-Seattle Star final rowed out into Elliott Bay. Japanese are barred (because they are too skillful). So are outboard motors. Contestants are permitted to troll (drag lure through the water) or spin (cast from anchored boat). In each boat is an "observer" supplied by a rival fisherman to prevent petty cheating...
Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...
...Friends of Rhythm were born two years ago when, at a musicians' party, the Stuyvesant Quartet-four NBC Symphony men-leaned on the famed Tschaikowsky Andante Cantabile. When the New Friends recorded the piece with an enlarged ensemble, they named it Droshky Drag. They retagged other classics Bach Bay Blues, Shoot the Schubert to Me, Hubert (ballet music from Rosamunde), Riffin' Raff (Cavatina by Raff). The Overture to Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (he was a barber) became Barber's Hitch; Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe, Foster Chile'. Since last August, New Friends...
...speaking solemnly of undisputed things. It was no state secret that Belgium feared invasion by Germany and not by the Allies. No bones were ever made by King Leopold about his 1936 policy of "immunity," to replace "neutrality." He ended his alliance with Britain and France only lest it drag Belgium into war when they went. He desperately hoped and worked for peace right up to last week. He retained the Allies' pledge of defense in case Germany sought to attack them again through Belgium, because he more than guessed, he knew, that Germany would do so. There were...