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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany going to persuade Italy to front for peace, thus bringing her into more cordial relations with Russia? Was Italy, raging mad at Great Britain on account of the coal controversy (see col. 3), to make her final choice and plunge into the war on Germany's side? No. As it turned out, Herr Ribbentrop was just going to see the Pope...
...offensive might seem more promising. But, by any modern process of calculation, their margin of superiority in numbers is not enough to support that promise. So far as can be gauged, only the introduction of some radically new weapon, or extraordinarily bad generalship on the Allies' side, could give them any chance of real success...
...University of Chicago, decade ago, Katherine Dunham majored in anthropology, with her eye on the dance as a primitive social manifestation. On the side she taught dancing, formed dance groups. In 1936 Miss Dunham persuaded the Rosenwald Foundation to send her to the West Indies to study the dances of Jamaica, Haiti, Martinique, Trinidad. Un like most anthropologists, Miss Dunham could break down the shyness of her subjects by cutting expert capers. Awed Haitians were sure she had "a piece" of their native god. Conversing in English and French patois, she picked up many a trick step, including...
Woody Herman has continued to do good discs, "East Side Kick" being one of his best numbers done lately. Get a load of "Blue Prelude" with Wood's vocal chorus and then get the old Isham Jones version of the same, done for Decca when most of the Herman Herd were with Jones . . . One of Louis Armstrong's best numbers in a great while is "Poor Old Joe." Main reason is that it has the life and pep that the old Louis discs used to have and that none of them have had lately . . . Bing Crosby's "If I Knew...
...Time fights on the side of the Nazis now that peace has been established between Finland and Russia," Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, stated when asked what effect the peace would have on Germany...