Conductor Leinsdorf Questions Soldier Love of Classical Music
Metropolitan Opera and Cleveland Orchestra conductor Erich Leinsdorf, visiting United States troops, doubts the claim that GI life boosts enthusiasm for classical music. He noted small, later filled audiences and observed civilian publicity around such stories while touring camps and USO venues.
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NEW Torr
Camp Lee
Virginia
Nsdorf
Beethoven
Schubert
Rahms
W Hom
Leinsdorf Conducts Cuban Hurricane Benefit
Conductor Leinsdorf, recently released from the Army, spent a month in Havana leading the Philharmonic Orchestra. He held a midnight hurricane relief show at the National Theatre that filled the house, with regular concerts drawing enthusiastic crowds. He noted returning soldiers will first seek to make a living before pursuing the humanities.
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Ethan
Gece Posta
Cat Pledia
David
Gregor
Long Beach
L. L
Cuba
Leinsdorf
Havana
Philharmonic
National Theatre
Yanks Destroy Belgian Bridge With Dynamite
In Stavelot Belgium on December 20 American combat engineers under Captain James Rice destroyed a 60 foot brick and stone bridge over the Ambleve river with a half ton of dynamite. The action, believed to halt German armored columns, marked the first bridge demolition by Rice and his unit in the defense.
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Stavelot
Belgium
Gs Mans
Naz
Ambleve
James Rice
Calif
Ric
Rice
Yanks Blow Up Bridge with Camouflage and Firepower
Army unit led by Rice used a dynamite truck to destroy a German bridge at night. Bombs planted in bursts in the street silenced by artillery fire as a Roman candle explosion finished the job. Afterward soldiers joked about repairs and planned breakfast prep for muffins.
Ingenious GI Camouflage In Snowless Winter Clash
A Second Infant division unit in the Siegfried Line describes improvised white undergarment camouflage to evade snipers. Corporal John K. Smith recalls painting helmets white and using oversized underwear to appear as German forces during patrols. Private S collions wanders looking for his unit, while Lt Earl W. Burriere faces a German surrender request mistaken for a Nazi taunt in a cellar.
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Hal Boyle
Siegfried Line
Corp
John K. Smith
Louisville
Bond Show By RAF Band To Aid War Bond Drive
High Point prepares for a Christmas E bond drive event featuring the Royal Air Forces Band and a US estate air force tour. The Greensboro appearance will cap a statewide campaign with 2518 tickets sold in banks at varied prices from 25 to 1000 dollars. Early purchases urged due to limited availability.
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Phillips
Greensboro
Royal Air Forces
Royal Air Force
J. Sood
United States
England
ORC Air Forces
RAF
War Finance On
Ee Ce
Barpere
Pac
Ealert
Ninety Day Furloughs for Textile Workers
Washington December 21 text states ninety day furloughs will start January 1 for several hundred soldiers to allow them to work in cotton duck textile plants. Eligibility requires U S station in the continental United States in non infantry or air force branches and prior service as a loom fixer doffer or section man.
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Washington
Maybank
Continental United States
Apoe
Sharp curtailment of book matches limits civilian use
Kitchen matches will surge as a curtailment of book match production fails to cut ercentage. US match industry spokesmen say 1944 output runs to 5 per cent of last year, which was 80 per cent of 1942. Paper back matches vanish with 35 per cent of production for the armed forces and small safety box matches reserved for military use.
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New York
United States
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Rochuck and Co
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