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What's Cooking at Oudjda? It was as American as corn. Captain Andre Baruch, announcer (once of NBC and CBS), opened with: "Well, let's see what's cooking at Oudjda." Oudjda (pronounced ooj-dah'), which is in Morocco, came in: "Greetings, gang! This is Sergeant Dick Weston, the old Musical Message Sender in Oudjda, getting ready to read those requests and deliver with the music." A pair of privates wanted a Bea Wain recording of God Bless the Child for some of their buddies "now in parts unknown." They got it. A sergeant requested Tommy...
Marlene Dietrich & Jean Gabin, dining together in Manhattan's El Morocco club, gave themselves over wholly to Marlene's expert schmaltz...
...under the name of Charles Morini, in a Paris exhibition. Four Churchill oils were sold (for ?30 each). Once a Churchill painting went for an even higher price at a Balmoral benefit. But the Prime Minister keeps most of his 300-odd pictures in his own studio. (In Marrakech, Morocco, on a day off after the Casablanca Conference with President Roosevelt, he painted a view of the Atlas Mountains...
...Liberation had begun to function. By week's end it was clear that De Gaullism would dominate the central power. Peyrouton was replaced by General Catroux. Notorious ex-Vichyite General Auguste Noguès (he had opposed the U.S. landing at Casablanca) stepped out as Resident General of Morocco. The purging process, first of many hard tasks before the new France, had begun. This week, the seven-man committee expanded its membership to 14, assigned portfolios...
...Spain, Italy, Vatican City, French Morocco, Algeria, England, Eire, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Malta, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran...