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...miles from Britain. Squadrons of giant four-motored Lancasters swept down on the former Free City in the early evening, while it was still daylight, to dump heavy bomb cargoes on submarine-building yards and other targets. Other squadrons simultaneously attacked Flensburg, another U-boat spawning ground at the Danish-German frontier. Unofficial statements that three bombers missing from the operation constituted a loss of less than 5% was indication that something over 60 bombers took part in the attack, aided by a cloud cover over the target areas...
Married. Barbara Hutton, 30, Woolworth heiress ("the richest girl in the world"), and Cinemactor Archibald Alexander Leach (cinemonicker: Gary Grant), 38; she for the third time, he for the second; at Lake Arrowhead, Calif. She divorced her first husband, Georgian Prince Alexis Mdivani, in 1935, her second, Danish Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, in 1941; Grant was divorced by Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill...
...cupboard. Several days before the 30th anniversary of his accession to the throne, King Christian X ruled that no celebrations be held in his honor. In the once dairy-rich country there was still some milk- but most of it was skimmed. Eggs, butter and bacon, onetime Danish standbys, were scarce as hens' teeth. Thousands of Danes had been exiled to enforced labor in Germany. Two years of German domination had really brought the New Order to Denmark...
...four-motored bombers swung into Norway, turned up with 75 heavy bombers over Trondheim, where the Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen are holed up. Under a bright bomber's moon, the raiders went after another target -a big submarine base just completed after two years of work by Danish vassal labor. Few days later the returns came in from agents in Sweden: two years had been wasted. The base was reported a ruin...
...Crosby find of the season, Danish Comedian Victor Borge, produced some delayed-action gags at the piano. Bing got back in the big American groove with a smoky rendering of Blues in the Night ("From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow, etc."). It was a pretty good hour and it worked up to "I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag" sung by Igor Gorin. Transcribed, the whole thing went over on KGEI's short wave next morning early. Most homelike part of the program for MacArthur's men were the Kraft commercials...