Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spur the U. S. air corps' recruiting drive Charlie McCarthy turned up with Edgar Bergen at March Field, Calif., offered a combination peashooter-bombsight "guaranteed to hit a cuspidor at 30 feet," was sworn in as honorary master sergeant by Colonel Benjamin G. Weir, base commander. Viewing 21 flying fortresses lined up in his honor, Charlie suggested: "Try putting a hostess in each...
...Bergen, Wald und Auen
Last week the British seemed to know too much. They knew that hundreds of self-propelled barges, speedboats and other light craft had been concentrated in Stavanger, Bergen, Antwerp, Ostend, Flushing, Dunkirk, Dieppe, Calais, Boulogne, Brest and all the way down to the Bay of Biscay. That big convoys of merchant supply and transport ships had been port-hopping into the Channel under cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved...
...Most popular program was that of Edgar Bergen, with a rating of 40 per 100 set-owners polled. Runner-up with 39 was the unctuous Jack Benny, with Lux Radio Theatre, Fibber McGee & Molly and the Kraft Music Hall trailing along after...
...world's eyes have been too closely focused on the narrow Channel. Perhaps he would spring from Norway. Last week Swedish newshawks reported a German transport torpedoed in the Kattegat, bound for Norway with 4,000 men aboard. Swedes have also reported troop and transport concentrations at Bergen and Stavanger. Perhaps Hitler would use Eire, which has declared it would resist British "protection" with force. Perhaps he would come...