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Benevenuto Cellini's amorous escapades rank as high in history as his creations of art; Max Gordon's current version may not be authentic, but it is lavish, tasteful theatre, literally bulging at the seams in an effulgent abundance of talent. Ira Gershwin's witty lyrics match the temper of Weill's music well, and Maurice Abravahel gets racing vitality from the orchestra. Catherine Littlefield has met the choreography assignment with dancing that whips merrily along at a tingling clip. Raoul Pene DuBois prepared dazzling costumes, Jo Mielziner splendiferous settings, and to top it all off, the staging was handled...
Married. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); and Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, 21, teachers college graduate whose blown-up photograph glamorized his P-38; in Superior, Wis. Nine A.A.F. officers proxied for one absent wedding guest: ailing five-star General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold...
That afternoon Hopkins flew south to Mediterranean Headquarters near Naples, where he met belated Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Wholly overshadowed by Harry Hopkins, the Secretary of State apparently saw nobody of political importance except Ambassador Kirk. After a dinner with U.S. Generals Ira C. Eaker and Joseph T. McNarney, Messrs. Stettinius and Hopkins hoarded separate planes, vanished into the Big Three silence...
...Major Richard Ira Bong (40 planes) has returned from battle...
Major Richard Ira Bong, snub-nosed, wavy-haired U.S. Ace of Aces (40 Jap planes), returned from the Southwest Pacific, where he had burned up the skies since last September, promptly set off to visit his fiancee, Marge Vattendahl of Superior, Wis., whom he plans to marry...