Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who may be slightly puzzled as to how this column qualifies as representative of the Specialists' Corner, I can only quote Ernest Hemingway (author of the well-known movie, "For Whom The Gong Chongs"): "The saloon must go... and I will take it with...
Blessings come doubly this week, from Lowell and Leverett. The good news from Lowell is that the Art Hodes band, which S/Sgt. George Avakian raved about in this column two weeks ago, will be down from the Lawrence Hofbran for an afternoon jam session in the Lowell House dining hall, Saturday, August 14, from 2 to 5 o'clock. The band's young drummer, William Hines, has been replaced by the great veteran, Kaiser Marshall, who once played with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and who was in Wild Bill Davison's great mixed band at the Ken last spring...
Looking around for U.S. reaction, OWI grabbed a column by the New York Post's Samuel Grafton, who wrote: "The moronic Fttle king who has stood behind Mussolini's shoulder for 21 years has moved forward one pace." OWI added an epithet of its own: "Marshal Badoglio, a high-ranking Fascist, has been named successor." It also quoted one John Durfee, described as "the American political commentator," as saying that Mussolini's fall was not regarded in the U.S. as an event of much importance...
...first he found no Japs. "Sometimes," says he, "I think the 'Great Flying Boss in the Sky' was giving me a little more practice before he put me to the supreme test." But one day Scott flew along the Burma Road, caught a Jap column in a narrow defile...
Almost Human. The six machine guns "seemed to cut the column to bits. ... I could see those who hadn't been hit trying desperately to crawl up the muddy bank . . . and slipping back. ... I came back over . . . kept on cutting them to pieces until my ammunition was gone; I fired 1,890 rounds into those three or four hundred Japanese, and I don't think more than a handful escaped." Back at base, Scott christened his P-40 " 'Old Exterminator' . . . patted the gun sight affectionately [and] knew right then that this ship was almost a human...