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After a brief rest leave in Tokyo, Correspondent Tom Lambert of the Associated Press climbed into clean combat fatigues last week to go back to the front. Just as Lambert was boarding a bus for the airfield, he was handed an unexpected, unwelcome and undeserved order from Colonel Marion P. Echols, press chief for General MacArthur. For filing dispatches giving "aid and comfort to the enemy," able, conscientious Newsman Lambert was forbidden to return to Korea. So was United Press Correspondent Peter Kalischer, for the same harsh reason...
Colonel Echols offered only one example of Lambert's "objectionable" reporting. The A.P. man had quoted a front-line G.I.: "You don't fight two tank-equipped divisions with .30-caliber carbines. I never saw such a useless damned war in all my life." Echols said some Kalischer dispatches also "made the Army look...
Died. Basil Garwood ("Professor Lam-berti") Lambert, 58, "mad xylophonist" of vaudeville; after long illness; in Hollywood. Professor Lamberti's best known act: he played repeated xylophone encores, to wild applause, apparently unaware that a stripteuse was performing behind his back...
Change of Mind. Nervously Nicol hastened over to the College St. Eugene at Granby, where Mme. Labrecque worked as a cook. He asked to see Lucile, but the Abbe Lambert Collette turned him away, informing him that his marriage (by a Justice of the Peace) was not recognized by the Catholic Church. Later he was told that Lucile would ask for an annulment. But when Nicol saw her a week or so later in the Convent of the Grey Nuns at Chambly, she seemed to have changed her mind, asked him to arrange a reconciliation with her mother...
...done only in the Soviet Union and Covent Garden. They sat, charmed, through the complete three-act, three-hour-long Tchaikovsky-Petipa ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Few could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann's third-act pas de deux...