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...them in-but kept stalling off its Broadway opening. Then Producer Michael Todd (Star & Garter, Something for the Boys) boldly announced he would open the show there over the violent protests of Gypsy and Director George S. Kaufman, who wanted it buried. As a final flip of the G-string, Todd took advance ads in Manhattan papers reading: "Guaranteed not to win the Pulitzer Prize...
Besides these losses to the Navy, Wally Mroz, first-string guard, is on the injured list, and will be replaced by Earle Winters, while second-string end Frank Holt has been drafted. In other line-up shifts, Ray Eder has regained the wingback post, although Dick Warren will probably see almost as much action as Eder, and Don Geeson has nosed out Tom Haymond at left...
Acuff, son of an oldtime fiddler, was a second-string radio singer a few years ago, when Columbia Recording Corp., trying to trace an old English ballad, The Great Speckled Bird, found that Acuff knew it and hundreds more. Columbia signed him up. Since then, he has made four motion pictures (two still unreleased) and barrowfuls of money. Recently he put down $25,000 cash for an old mansion on Nashville's fashionable Hillsboro Road...
...angle, make this final adjustment. Then he hunched tensely over the rubber-padded sight telescope, deftly fingering the control knobs. The target crawled across the sight until the two cross hairs were directly on it; at that moment Arpaia engaged the synchronizer and the sight did the rest. A string of white-painted bombs hurtled from Mischief Maker's belly. As they saw the lead plane's bombs go, bombardiers in the other Forts tripped the switches and toggled their own bombs. Arpaia turned control back to Iverson with a laconic "You've got it," and that...
...Mitropoulos) ; San Francisco (Pierre Monteux) ; Cincinnati (Eugene Goossens); St. Louis (Vladimir Golschmann); Detroit (U.S.-born Karl Krueger had managed to pull things together again after the orchestra became the temporary charge of Sam's Cut-Rate, Inc.-TIME, Oct. 19); Los Angeles (U.S.-born Alfred Wallenstein succeeded a string of guests); National Symphony of Washington, D.C. (Hans Kindler); Pittsburgh (Fritz Reiner); Rochester (José Iturbi); Indianapolis (Fabien Sevitzky). Of the 18 major-league orchestras only one looked like a war casualty: the Kansas City Philharmonic had lost its conductor, Karl Krueger, to Detroit and had as yet no plans...