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...resistance movement around Cherbourg was originally organized by three groups. One was Libération, organized by Socialists, scholars and labor leaders; a second was Front National, organized by Communists; and the third was called Organisation Civile et Militaire, a non-political organization, and the strongest in the Cherbourg area. Now by decree of the Algiers Government, combat elements of these groups are merged into the Forces Françaises de VIntérieure, a unit of the French Army under command of General Joseph Pierre Koenig (see WORLD BATTLE-FRONTS). According to resistance chiefs in Cherbourg, the movement...
...incident was symbolic: a plump little old man, ex-Senator Daniel Hastings of Delaware who has served his Party for 15 years in many high positions, sat below the press box, glumly chewing a cigar, glumly watching the new party bigwigs, Dewey, Warren, Saltonstall, Dwight Griswold, et al. A young blond usherette, with a pageboy bob, strode up to him, said: "Hey, bub, you can't sit here!" Glumly he wandered off, looking for a friendly face, for a Republican who remembered...
...reasons for this sudden flowering are two : 1 ) retailers, cramped by wartime shortages, are stocking practically any thing; 2) small record companies, formerly devoted to such specialties as race songs or Elizabethan madrigals, have taken advantage of the Petrillo feud with Victor and Columbia (TIME, Dec. 6, 1943, et ante} to enter the popular field...
Debussy: En Blanc et Noir (Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, duo-pianists; Columbia; 4 sides). Late, comparatively poor-quality Debussy, principally interesting for the quaint way in which the war-saddened composer (who died during World War I) surrounds and satirizes a Lutheran hymn. Performance: good. Recording: good...
...Readers Basilico, Jaffe, et al. never hear, then, of the great Finn MacCool (TIME, Nov. 1) ? He was well known to have lepped the width of Ireland (115 Sassenach miles) in three jumps, and could outrun a hare or a stag itself, and he merely moving his legs gently, the way he'd be restoring his circulation...