Music: Straight-Faced Kid

For the past ten years, a slim, long-faced cockney girl with big blue eyes and a big blue voice has been the queen of England's popular singers. By last week, Vera Lynn's voice was being heard across the U.S. — and if she wasn't yet the queen of U.S. singers, she was at least high on the list of ladies in waiting.

When her recording (London Records) of You Can't Be True, Dear first hit the U.S. last May, thousands of fans bought the platter and listened. Here, for a change, was a girl who really sang, straight out and straight on...

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