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Besides Soprano Pons and a competent though none too handsome tenor, French-Canadian Raoul Jobin, The Daughter of the Regiment boasts, in the role of Sergeant Sulpice who foster-fathers Marie, a notable new singer, Italian Basso Buffo Salvatore Baccaloni. The Met's production ends with everyone singing La Marseillaise*-an idea contributed by Mme. Pons's band-leading husband, Andre ("Kosty") Kostelanetz...
...first airman, to get a Victoria Cross in World War II. The first four British airmen who won V. C.s were bomber crewmen: Acting Flight Lieut. Roderick A. Learoyd (attacking a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems canal in the face of heavy point-blank fire); Sergeant Thomas Gray and Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland ("most conspicuous bravery" in wrecking the Albert Canal bridge); Sergeant John Hannah (extinguishing a roaring blaze in a bomber instead of bailing...
...SERGEANT LAMB'S AMERICA-Robert Graves-Random House...
...young Marine) is first repelled, then fascinated by the shout of a sweating sergeant to his bleeding, hesitant platoon...
...they will spend 14 weeks at replacement centres now building, to learn something of soldiering before joining seasoned troops. Those who look good on the basis of their G. C. test and show leadership qualities will get a crack at commanding, may attain the status of "cadet" or "temporary sergeant," wear not chevrons but an identifying arm band. Says the War Department: "The arm band will slip off and on with remarkable ease." Those on whom the arm band stays longest may after nine months be admitted to Officers' Training School, may one day substitute securely pinned shoulder bars...