Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monday's musicale was assured of becoming a smash hit when Jimmy Rushing opened his jaws to sing "Harvard Blues" while Count Basie tinkled along behind him at the piano. But in the excitement of the occasion don't forget the local boys who made good in front of the home crowd that night. There were, of course, the two winners, Burgstaller and Dunn, who continued their brilliant rivalry on the tenor sax later in the week when Andy Kirk came to town, but there were some others whom I'd like to mention here who played more than...
...recent amendment to Selective Service regulations provided that no deferment would be granted men married after Dec. 8 unless the marriage resulted from "circumstances beyond their control." A subsequent amendment holds that expectant fathers, or men whose only children have been born since Dec. 7, may not count these children as dependents, particularly if such dependency was acquired with deferment in mind...
...Freshman baseball team managed to score against Holy Cross, although the Crusaders came through by a 9 to 3 count. Second baseman Vinnie Leahy was elected captain after the game Saturday at Soldiers Field...
...Papal Count. Laval's politically ambitious daughter Jose, swarthy as her father, became his right-hand woman. They traveled together in Italy, Russia and the U.S., where Laval hobnobbed with Herbert Hoover at the White House. Through daughter Jose, Laval reached into French aristocracy. Jose married young Rene de Chambrun, son of the onetime French Ambassador to Italy, descendant of Xa-fayette, nephew by marriage of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Through the De Chambruns, Laval met Marshal Petain. Laval eventually rose so high as to be made a Papal Count...
...date, they are still slightly less than Japan's probable rate of aircraft production. Last autumn she was reportedly building about 300 combat planes per month, was aiming at 600 per month by the end of this year. But overall totals, even over-all replacements, are not what count in the kind of war Japan faces. What counts is whether her production is geared to replace the types which she is losing, as fast as she is losing them - and she is losing fighters, may be losing even her best bombers, at a rate higher than any she probably...