Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well aware that much could be done to improve the status of military-band music in the U.S. but the trouble lies in Washington, not in New Haven. My hat is off to young men like Captain Glenn Miller who can put aside the glamor and the big money of top-flight professional careers and enter upon the unexciting routine of an army band on army pay and throw into this new task such energy, enthusiasm and skill as to quicken the pulse and lighten the heart of everyone within hearing distance...
London reported last week that the Germans had advised Pius to seek refuse in Liechtenstein, the tiny (65 sq. mi.) Catholic principality tucked in the mountains between Switzerland and Germany. But Pius would not voluntarily leave his neutral haven...
...Haven't you really any aristocracy...
...stars blinked and looked again. No. 1 on the list was no surprise: as usual, it was the Majmifico of the Movies, Loew's and M.G.M.'s cold-eyed Louis Burt Mayer. But No. 2 was a brand-new name: Carl Gustave Swebilius, head of a New Haven, Conn, engineering outfit called Dixwell Corp., and of two subsidiaries aptly named High Standard Manufacturing Co. and High Standard Manufacturing Corp...
From their sunny cabins in the sky, U.S. Eighth Air Force bombardiers last week pinpointed targets in East Prussia, Pomerania, Occupied Poland. It meant: 1) there is no haven in any part of Germany for bomb-sick Nazis, either by day (U.S.) or by night (R.A.F.) and 2) the German fighter force has been pushed farther & farther inland, its elasticity about gone. Some American bombs fell on Danzig, already bombed by the Red Air Force. The cost: 29 U.S. bombers, 91 German fighters...