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Stopover Privilege. The President had been in no hurry to return home from Casablanca. After the ten-day conference was over he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill drove 150 miles to the ancient city of Marrakech, with its grove of palm trees at the foot of the snow-topped Atlas Mountains, with its musty 16th-Century tombs and its square, where snake charmers, jugglers and native dancers perform in the afternoons...
...when Paul Whiteman was still King of Jazz. No jazzman, Cugat realized that he could not compete with Afro-Saxons on their own ground. So he bravely cultivated a little Afro-Latin plot of his own. With a rumba orchestra of six, he opened at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove...
Listeners rushed downtown, saw angry flames licking the structure, heard screams of agony within. In ten minutes it was all over. As in Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire (TIME, Dec. 7) many died trampled at the exits, some were unrecognizably burned. The death count was at least 100, and rising...
Handling the job in the best Co-coanut Grove tradition, the fire-bugs held a match to the most inflammable of the placards, and then fled the scene while the blaze envelopped the board and charred the entry. Most violent reaction to this bit of sabotage came from the proctor, Frank "the fruit" Newman '42, who quite violently and properly resented the flaming zeal with which they were pressing revenge...
Four student officers of the Naval Training School lost their lives in the Cocoanut Grove disaster, it was revealed yesterday. Although three of the deaths were known several weeks ago and the body of the fourth officer was found last week, the list had not hitherto been published. Announced through Washington, the names could not be released until next of kin had been informed...