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...brother's boss. She also sings a slice of hickory-smoked Victor Herbert and an aria from Puccini's Turandot with her familiar verve. But as the verses go on, on, on and, by way of variation, on, some customers may feel that Art is the longest distance between two points...
They used to call it the "Misery & Short Life," and the "Maimed & Still Limping." But last week the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Co. finally came out of one of the longest receiverships in railroad history. And the bondholders who have stayed with it through 20 long years of bankruptcy finally had a good thing...
...Eighth Air Force maintained its attacks from Britain at the un precedented rate of one mass raid every two and a half days. In an attack on Bremen, Thunderbolts and P-38 Lightnings made their longest escort penetration of the war (900 round-trip miles). Lost: 15 heavy bombers. U.S. and British heavy bombers from North Africa and the R.A.F. Bomber Command in Britain attacked the Germans' rail lines between France and Italy, reported that the most important of them had been severed at least temporarily...
...warcaster who has sat longest at a Russian microphone during World War II recently returned to the U.S NBC's thin, quiet, earnest Robert Magidoff, ex-A.P. man, has been in Russia, except for an occasional trip home, for the last eight years. Kiev-born, U.S.-raised and educated (University of Wisconsin), he was hired by NBC two and a half year ago, sight unseen. He is married to a Russian, speaks her language fluently, ha observed her people with equanimity. Some of his observations...
Nobody has ever played the game of U.S. concert management with a shrewder gambler's eye than pudgy, Russian-born Sol Hurok of Manhattan. Last week Hurok gambled $120,000 on one of the longest and prettiest shots of his career. She was a pert, dark-haired, 18-year-old coloratura soprano named Patrice Munsel. For his $120,000, Hurok got the rights to Patrice's concert and radio appearances for three years. On an operatic filly who has not yet run her maiden race, that was tall betting...