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...first U.S. soldiers wounded in France to get back to the U.S. were Lieut. Colonel Michael C. Murphy and Pfc. James A. Lester. They were flown from Britain in a C-54. ambulance plane, a trip so swift, the Colonel said, that it took half as long as the boat ride from Normandy back to Britain. Last week scores of soldiers who, like them, face long convalescence, had been sped home by the big transports...
...culture of sophisticated Europe. Grieg, though tempted, sticks to Norway, and composes his greatest work, the Piano Concerto in A Minor. So ingratiating are the familiar, lyrical Grieg melodies in which this flimsy plot is dressed that last week three Hollywood studios were bidding for movie rights and Producer Lester was thinking of taking his show to Broadway...
Despite the success of Blossom Time (Franz Schubert) and The Great Waltz (Johann Strauss) the rather obvious idea of building an operetta around the life of Norwegian Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg apparently occurred to nobody until a year ago. Then it suddenly burgeoned in the brain of Edwin Lester, director of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association. He proceeded to turn out one of the most lavish and expensive ($110,000) productions the Association has ever staged. Song of Norway opened in Los Angeles last fortnight and by last week, it was looking like...
Pondering the problem, Major General Lester T. Miller, supply chief of the Army's Air Service Command, said last week: "To return much of it would be prohibitive, due to transportation and handling costs and because many items quickly become obsolete." Unless stuff can be disposed of on the spot. General Miller advised, "it will be more economical and cost taxpayers less to dump it in the ocean...
...court to be lenient with him." Less inclined to leniency, Judge Lester W. Patterson reduced the charge to simple assault, last week sentenced Parolee Peluso to the city penitentiary for a term not to exceed three years...