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Certainly Japanese land and air forces did not fail for lack of effort. Ninety miles east of Rangoon they established a jumping-off spot at the smoking, Kipling-sung city of Moulmein, fanned northward along Burma's longest and swiftest river, the Salween, for a frontal assault against the curving coastal Martaban-Pegu railroad that leads into the Burma Road, feed line for seaborne supplies from the U.S. But there the advance slowed, then virtually halted...
Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Decca). More blues -and religious at that. Sung by a vibrant Negro of the nightclubs, onetime Holy Roller church singer...
...overcentralization promptly answered the President's carefree blast. The New York Herald Tribune demanded that the first parasites to go be the Government's 2,895 full-time and 31,618 part-time pressagents. The Washington News composed new lyrics to Maryland! My Maryland, to be sung by parasites marching out of town...
...Bing got back in the big American groove with a smoky rendering of Blues in the Night ("From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow, etc."). It was a pretty good hour and it worked up to "I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag" sung by Igor Gorin. Transcribed, the whole thing went over on KGEI's short wave next morning early. Most homelike part of the program for MacArthur's men were the Kraft commercials, which the sponsors left unchanged. Sample...
...fall of France sent Lily Djanel to the U.S. some 16 months sooner than she had planned. She sang in Paris five days before the Germans arrived, then spent three days getting to Bordeaux. Soprano Djanel has sung Carmen 80 times in her twelve-year career. She is blonde, wears a black wig for the gypsy and her other special role, Salome in Richard Strauss's opera. But the Met has canceled plans to present Djanel's Salome-partly because it involves heavy royalties to the Nazified composer (although now he could not collect them...