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When he was introduced before headliner Benny Goodman in late 1942, the ensuing roar prompted Goodman, offstage, to ask, "What the hell was that?" The first superstar, baby. Two years later a crowd of 30,000 teenage girls swamped the Paramount Theater in a morning ticket rush dubbed the Columbus Day Riot. The bobby-soxers had reached battalion strength. And when they heard Frank sing, they fell, as they would for decades, for Swoonatra...
...game time, it had warmed up three degrees, to 13 below. In the stands, 50,000 Packer backers stuffed themselves into their flap-eared hats and sleeping bags. For the Dallas Cowboys, hell had frozen over. For fans gathered around their warm televisions, it was a frosty football treasure. Trailing 17-14 with seconds to go, the Pack pulled out the NFL title on QB Bart Starr's sneak...
...Rick Leventhal report while a Marine unit fired heavy artillery gave us a personal, frightening glimpse of the immediacy of war, all it objectively told us was that somebody somewhere was shooting at someone or something. All that live video sent the stirring message that the planes were unleashing hell, Saddam's palaces were burning, and the caissons were rolling along. But in the first days of the war, it didn't show us what was behind those telegenic, orange cotton-candy fireballs: dead Iraqi soldiers and civilians...
...humvees and armored personnel carriers fanned out across the southern Iraqi desert on the road to Baghdad. In the war's first days, Bedouin campsites were a more common sight than Iraqi garrisons. Some U.S. troops could barely hide their disappointment at not coming under enemy fire. "What the hell did we come here to do?" asked First Sergeant William Mitchell, 34, a member of Charlie Rock Company, the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team, as his crew idled on the highway last week. On Friday members of Charlie Rock burst into the southern city of Nasiriyah, fully...
...picture is clearer, but no less surreal. Above all, let’s hope that Howard continues to recover from his injuries. But yes, let’s also hope like hell that this had nothing to do with the Northeastern and Harvard rowing teams...