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Archduke Otto of Austria, at last report a glossy, uninvited onlooker at the Quebec Conference (TIME, Oct. 3), was the center of a wild rumor spread by peace-hungry Austrians in the hope of early deliverance from Nazi hands. The story: 31-year-old Pretender Otto had married 18-year-old Svetlana Stalin, only daughter of The Kremlin.

Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, patent-leather-lunged idol, opened a three-week engagement at Manhattan's mammoth Paramount Theater, got the usual screaming reception from 30,000 bow-tied, bobby-soxed fans, who caused such a commotion that the Police Department responded with 421 policemen, 20 policewomen,...

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