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NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. By all means get to the Bermuda Terrace, where Red Norvo is playing. I haven't been able to hear the band yet myself, but I'll guarantee you can't go wrong on Red (He calls me Charlie) . . . Benny Goodman's twelve-inch coupling features a number of things, including Helen Forrest singing The Man I Love, Benny's clarinet, a bit of Cootie's trumpet, the best sax section in the world, and some extremely imaginative orchestration by Eddie Sauter on the reverse, Benny Rides Again. On the latter, Sauter ignores any conventional form...
...defenses, the U. S. was doing. The U. S. was becoming banker to the world. To Argentina went $60,000,000, to Uruguay $7,500,000. (Argentines and Uruguayans three days later forgot old enmities, got together on a joint defense program- U. S. engineers swarmed over Bermuda, defense outpost, planning the 510-acre military base that will bring warplanes and battleships to the island of bicycles. The Maritime Commission, launching a merchant ship every seven days, prepared to sell the British 15 of its laid-up fleet of 64 for $3,010,800; asked bids on 24 more. Means...
Disguising Raiders is a favorite sport of the Germans. Ashore in Manhattan last week was Captain Cornelius Arundele, master of the freighter Haxby, which a German raider sank off Bermuda last April. He spent 64 days aboard the enemy as a prisoner. In that time he saw her fly the Greek, Brazilian and Dutch flags. Of "much more than 10,000 tons," she had a telescopic funnel and a lot of light steel plates which she shifted like scenery, to change her silhouette from day to day. Her superstructure was repeatedly repainted. Provisioned to cruise three years, she had slipped...
...indigent London barrister, started the Daily Mail. First of Britain's great papers for the masses, it made the Harmsworths first of a fabulous line of British press lords. That era definitely ended last week when the younger of the Harmsworth brothers, aged 72, died of dropsy in Bermuda...
...gnomelike little Baron Beaverbrook, publisher of the mammoth London Daily Express, Minister of Aircraft Production-took Rothermere out of retirement, sent him to Canada and the U. S. on a special war mission. Harold Harmsworth was still rich, but old and tired. Month ago he went to Bermuda for a rest. His granddaughter was with him when he died...