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...luncheon with the President went Admiral William H. Standley, Ambassador to Russia, returned from Moscow to make a special report. What the report contained was not disclosed: doubtless it dwelt longest on Joseph Stalin's impatience with Lend-Lease deliveries and delay on the second front...
...biggest night bombers from attacks on Germany. Western Europe caught it anyhow: from fast Mosquitoes that flew in daylight, unescorted, over northwest Germany; from Mustang fighters that machine-gunned an army camp; from Spitfires that strafed canal barges and locomotives; from U.S. Flying Fortresses that made their longest excursion to pound the Nazi submarine base in Lorient, France...
They took turns on census treks, the longest of which was 61 days in weather never milder than 48 below...
High up, too, among revivals, is the 44-year-old flimflam, The Belle of New York, now seeing its third war without change of jokes or costumes. Longest-lived musical is Ivor (Keep the Home Fires Burning) Novello's The Dancing Years, recently past the 1,000 mark. Other flourishing musicals: Get a Load of This, featuring Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Vic Oliver; and a revival of Rose-Marie, a Broadway favorite of the '20s. Americans in Britain damn London's musicals as miles below U.S. standards, and former N.Y. Herald Tribune Critic Richard...
Died. Dame Marie Tempest, 78, darling of two generations of theatergoers; in London. She was the longest-reigning queen of comedy on the British stage, made her debut in 1885, was rehearsing a new show last summer when she fell ill. A musi-comedy star in the gaslit years, she switched to plays at the turn of the century, made a special type of role famed as "a Marie Tempest part." The part: a sprightly, well-bred matron, with a feline manner and a sharp tongue but a heart of gold. She lost most of her possessions when her home...