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Charlie Barnet is scheduled to do six twelve inch sides on Otto Cesana's "Symphony in Swing"--the longest jazz yet recorded . . . Bob Crosby's band gets some punch it has long needed with Doc Rando going in at third sax and Hank D'Amico going in shortly at lead. This will give the band three great clarinetists: D'Amico in the New York style and Rando and Fazola in the New Orleans style . . . Eddla Durham is starting a band--big news since he was responsible for much of the Lunceford-Basie-Savit success...
Died. Brigadier General Otto Herbert Falk, 74, onetime Adjutant General of the Wisconsin National Guard, chairman of the board of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (heavy machinery), twice chosen Milwaukee's "outstanding citizen"; of heart disease; in Milwaukee...
...Secret Weapon" used to subdue the Eben Emael fortress north of Liege was said last week by Lieut. Colonel Otto Hesse of the German General Staff, writing in Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, to be a flamethrower which generates 2,000° Centigrade. This heat, blasted into gun ports and ventilators from 70 yards, melts gun muzzles and sears their crews' lungs. With it, claim Nazis, the Maginot Line can be "melted." -General Joffre (whose chef de cabinet was Gamelin) on Sept. 6, 1914 before the battle of the Marne: ". . . . The time for looking backward has passed; every effort must...
...Quick on her heels tumbled Otto von Habsburg ("Otto the Last"), who, after his anti-Nazi pronouncements...
last month, could scarcely expect such consideration as Wilhelm von Hohenzollern got. With Otto fled his dynamic mother, the former Empress Zita, five lesser Habsburgs...