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Louder in the ears of the Italians was the ominous roar and rattle of the Allied military machine in North Africa. Virtually splitting their eardrums were the scream and crump of "blockbuster" bombs devastating the great industrial cities of Turin, Genoa, Milan...
Tennessee. Aging, dapper Boss Ed Crump, who can swing 57,000 Memphis votes with his little finger, proved that his grip on Tennessee is as tight as ever. Over formidable opposition-supported mightily by New Deal Publisher Silliman Evans' Nashville Tennessean-Crump's men swept the Democratic primary...
...they heard some joyful sounds. Less than 15 miles north of the front line, over the wrecked naval station at Olongapo on Subic Bay, the P-4Os peeled out of formation, and the howl of their engines rolled down the peninsula. The men on the ground could hear the crump of bombs, the clatter of .50-caliber guns. From the mountaintops, outposts saw the P-40s whip up from the attack, roll over, dive again & again. Then smoke began to rise, great billowing clouds of it, and they saw the tiny specks in the sky grow into the shapes...
Echoes of the Business. The 19 towers of the Kremlin, the vast emptiness of the Red Square, the workers' homes in the Krasnaya Presnya section of Moscow all resounded last week to a sound they had never before echoed: the shriek and crump of bombs. They had echoed the sirens before; they had echoed the loudspeakers roaring: "Bystree, bystree, tovarishchi-Quicker, quicker, comrades." But those had been mere drills. Last week Moscow got the real business...
Later on, among the wide-open delights of pre-war Beale Street, came Mister Crump and Memphis Blues. He tells the familiar story with vivid authority, sorely tilts against "Mr. X-" and "Mr. Z-who gypped him out of the copyright to Memphis Blues...