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...have two new bosses: Major General Alvan Gillem Jr., who used to command the Third Armored Division, will take over the newly formed Second Corps; chief of the First Corps will be tough, profane, gimlet-eyed Major General George S. ("Georgie") Patton Jr., variously known to his men as "Flash Gordon," "Old Blood and Guts," "the Green Hornet." Henceforth Generals Gillem and Patton will be No. 2 men to Armored Force Chief Major General Jacob Devers. For Georgie Patton, the promotion indicated that he was finally, after various ups & downs, in solid with the Army high command...
Musically Porgy and Bess is least good when most operatic. The top songs in Porgy and Bess-Summer Time, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', A Woman Is a Sometime Thing, It Ain't Necessarily So, the duet Bess, You Is My Woman Now-flash out like perfect stones in too heavy a setting...
...since 1929, has worked hard to get into big-league conducting (Ford Sunday Evening Hour, Eastman Rochester Symphony). One of his stunts has been to conduct from the keyboard, while playing a Liszt or Beethoven concerto. He enjoys periodic crescendos of rage (against jazz, hot dogs, flash bulbs, etc.), makes a point of being nearly late at concerts. He plays a Baldwin piano, and wherever he goes he is attended by a sort of caddy, supplied by the Baldwin people to look after the piano, piano stool, pianist. Plaintively the caddy says: "It don't seem right." Nor does...
...miners in Nevada's mountains, some 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas, heard a terrific explosion, saw a vivid flash near the top of Table Rock Mountain...
Other medical news received from Navy doctors in Honolulu last week: > More than 60% of the injuries were burns. Most of these were "flash" burns (instantaneous) on bare legs and arms. If the sailors had worn long pants and sleeves, said the doctors, they might not have been hurt. Three types of treatment were used: 1) dressings soaked in mineral oil and sulfa drugs; 2) bandages dipped in gun tubs filled with tannic acid; 3) tannic-acid jelly. (Plain sulfa powders were discontinued because they caked on wounds.) > Newly made morphine "syrettes," ampules filled with morphine and fitted with sterile...