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HE IS perhaps most famous for White Christmas, the timeless festive classic written in 1942. But for five days in the war-time winter of 1943, Irving Berlin made Glasgow the epicentre of the entertainment world – at the corner of Sauchiehall Street and West Nile Street, to be precise.