Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ripostes by R. A. F. to Germany's air blows were delivered incessantly upon military, industrial and communications centres all across Naziland to Berlin, northeast to Bergen and Stavanger. Airports, munition dumps and-most ominous-concentrations of barges along the Lowland and French coasts, were targets attacked even in foul weather.* At all costs Britain must interrupt Germany's preparations, play for time. The Royal Navy's success in scotching France's sea power before the Axis could get it was a national bracer. For even if she stood off Blitzkrieg, Britain already faced Blockade. With...
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...Errol Flynn, Jimmie Fidler (in pirate costume), Johnny Weissmuller, Ken Murray (in pirate costume) and others fed (at $7.50 a head) decorative celebrities and the prominent press. Among the 400 eaters: Hearst's Polly Prying Louella Parsons, Columnists Ed Sullivan and Jimmie Fidler, Comic Jack Benny, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (his balding head swathed in a pirate's bandanna), Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour (who had dressed up in a pirate costume that afternoon for photographers), and Fox's smart, hand-pumping Publicity Chief Harry Brand...