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Miss Smith returned after intermission to give a group of songs with only piano accompaniment. Although showing a decided weakness on her endings and perhaps a related huskiness on her lower notes, Miss Smith truly hit her peak in the Gershwin songs where her full soprano was able to unbosom itself...
Last week wife No. 2, ex-secretary Arline Peak Fear, also applied for divorce, tried to explain it all to Judge Henry M. Willis. Said she: Ralph Gordon Fear married his first wife only 800 years ago. But when he was a Roman warrior (2,300 years ago, to be exact) he had married an earlier incarnation of Arline Peak Fear. Result: wife No. 1 recognized wife No. 2's seniority, quietly got her divorce and $2,000,000, Describing the first meeting of Mr. Fear and the two Mrs. Fears, Arline Fear testified: "Out at the desert cottage...
...force in the world: 18,269 planes on July 31, 1943, a ten times net increase over 1940, when Navy planes totaled 1,744. Since then the Navy has lost or written off as obsolete 6,800 planes and has transferred 2,100. >"Total naval shipbuilding is approaching its peak-as planned. . . . In the midst of war the U.S. has built its Navy into the greatest sea-air power on earth. Its size is dwarfed only by the size of the task which confronts...
...retailer or chain that never carried higher-priced goods before is high & dry on the pyramid's peak. If a J. C. Penney store's top dress price last year was $5.98, and if there are none made today to sell at that low a price, Penney can only stop selling dresses...
...California's huge (404 acres) San Quentin had a prewar peak of 5,600 prisoners...