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...complete and picturesque alteration. Stocky President Higinio Morinigo had long teetered on the fence between Argentina and the U.S. Short time ago the Frente de Guerra (War Front), a pro-Argentine group of Army officers, decided that he had perched there long enough. Led by hatchet-faced Colonel Benitez Vera, the 3,000-man garrison of Campo Grande set out for the center of Asunción, a few miles away, riding in Lend-Lease jeeps and trucks, guarded by Lend-Lease airplanes. President Morinigo met them, yielded to their demands...
Adding extra spin to the dancing is pert Vera-Ellen, the cutest musicomedy trick of the season. Surviving from the original score, and still giving satisfaction, are My Heart Stood Still, Thou Swell, On a Desert Island, I Feel At Home With You. Show-stopping new song, thanks to Lorenz Hart's funny lyrics and Vivienne Segal's brilliant delivery, is To Keep My Love Alive, a saga of a lady who industriously murdered her mates seriatim...
George Balanchine (real name Georgei Melitonovitch Balinchinvadze), St. Petersburg-born alumnus of the Russian Imperial Ballet and the late great Diaghilev troupe, husband of Ballerina Vera Zorina. He has recently divided his time between
...economic and political regime which did so much to create it and the Advocate's editors, in choosing typical rather than outstanding material, have added to the political significance. Andrel Platonov's "Armour Plate," the story of a marine engineer turned guerilla after his contact with Fascist barbarity, or Vera Inber's "Fragments from a Poem on Besieged Leningrad" are frankly wartime propaganda. But like the other pieces in the issue they are not doctrinaire, but literary blocks in the structure of Russian unity and heroism. Tikhonov's poem, "The Hunter," depicts movingly a type national hero, while Mikhail Zoshchenko...
Last week Archie toyed with uncommunicative Cinecomic Roland Young ("I think his mother was frightened by a clam"). In its time Duffy's has found similar salutes for shapely Dancer Vera Zorina ("The terpsicorpse from the ballet"), Information Please' s Clifton Fadiman ("What do you know - besides every thing?"), portly Elsa Maxwell ("Speaking of the Four Hundred, how're you and the other 398?"), and the Lone Ranger, whom Archie steadily addressed as Lone ("Lone, say hello to little Wilfred...