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...Some Cannon and some cannot have wisdom," the Bage murmured sleepily, but you, my friend, are as dumb a Kluchas I have ever seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Fooey Flings 'em | 10/18/1941 | See Source »

...Luftwaffe picked out Britain's east coast invasion ports, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Hull, Dover, Ramsgate. Under a cynical harvest moon bombers dropped high explosives and incendiaries, raked streets with cannon fire. For good measure they repeated the performance two nights later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Under the Cynical Moon | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Some stimulating bits by the stimulating tyros: Nancy Walker as a rowdy blind date, putting over a gutbucket ballad The Three Bs (boogie-woogie, barrelhouse and blues) with Co-workers Victoria Schools and June Allyson; Maureen Cannon as a forsaken lyrical young lady, singing of her desire to be a Shady Lady Bird, and stopping the show dead in its tracks; triple-talented Betty Anne Nyman as a tap-dancing, singing, acrobatic prom date; a rousing Buckle Down, Winsocki, with a full chorus led by minuscule Tommy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicomedy in Manhattan, Oct. 13, 1941 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...worth of 75-and 105-mm. shells for cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Three's Two-Thirds | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Admitting that "hunger and internal confusion as aids in breaking the Russian resistance" were unpredictable elements, the Germans undertook a heavy and lengthy bombardment of the city. All day long-range Nazi cannon, skulking in ash-colored Karelian soil, cracked high explosives into Leningrad's defenses. All night the Eighth Air Corps and the ugly "black beetles" of the Luftwaffe's smart Richthofen Squadron dealt out destruction, until the night glowed red with fire and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Two Sieges | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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