People: People, Oct. 22, 1945

Words & Music

President Juan Antonio Rios of Chile, dining with Harry S. Truman, told the President that he had already seen one of the "wonders of the U.S.—Henry Wallace with his hair combed."

Grade Fields, bouncy British music hall favorite, decided that she had done enough (or almost enough) cartwheels to last a lifetime. "At 47, I am too old to swing my legs around," she announced to Bombay newspaper reporters. Next stop: Rangoon.

Serge Koussevitzky, prestigious conductor of the Boston Symphony, had a heady idea: just 50¢ a year from each of New...

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