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...Ship Fleet. The Boise was a tired ship as she nosed up the Delaware River to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Patchwork covered a gaping hole in her hull, her tall mast was scorched by flame, great blisters of paint bulged from her stanchions. Hundreds of shell fragments had scarred and pocked her. But she moved proud and unfaltering through the early-morning haze. In the Solomons that terrible night in October, she had slugged it out with six Jap warships, had taken everything they threw at her, had lost 107 of her men and all of her beauty-but every...
Belatedly Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, now engaged in a Nazi espionage cleanup based on U.S. State Department memoranda similar to that recently sent Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), cabled Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The Argentine people, said he, watched "with solidarity and interest the efforts made by the great and friendly nation in safeguarding the security of the Americas...
Shipwrecked on Hollywood's fixed idea of the North African desert, still unchanged since the days of Rudolph Valentino and E. M. Hull, Hope and Crosby ad-lib their way to a native village ruled over by Princess Lamour who retains the pleasant knack of looking undressed even when fully clothed. Already betrothed to a native sheik (Anthony Quinn), Lamour gives her affections first to Hope, then to Crosby. Tribesman Quinn's desire for revenge touches off the Keystone excitement. Chief difference between Road to Morocco and its predecessors is that Hope also gets a girl...
...well-known concert pianist. After touring the world on a piano stool for 20 years, she settled down on her husband's estate in Rockland County, N.Y. During the depression Yolanda Irion discovered that 60% of unemployed musicians were singers. With wealthy Socialite Mrs. Lytle Hull, Mrs. Irion outlined a plan which would 1) put singers to work, 2) provide inexperienced U.S. operatic artists with a much-needed steppingstone to the Metropolitan. Mrs. Hull put up the money. Mrs. Irion organized the singers and musicians. Last year the New Opera Company was born...
Today, Mrs. Hull still foots a good part of the New Opera Company's budget. But broad-faced Yolanda Mero-lrion runs the show. She makes the final choices for the casts from scores of names selected by the Company's Board of Auditions. She decides which operas the Company will perform, picks its conductors, artistic and stage directors, ballet masters and coaches...