Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson becomes Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean theater. Hulking (6 ft., 260 lb.), happy-natured "Jumbo" Wilson will merge his old Middle East command with all operations between Gibraltar and the Levant. Crisp, experienced General Sir Harold Alexander, who had been General Eisenhower's No. 1 deputy, remains in Italy as top commander there. With General Sir Bernard Paget, who modernized the British Army's battle training at home, as Jumbo Wilson's deputy in the Middle East, the Mediterranean thus becomes an all-British theater (although U.S. units may remain there...
Since Britain's Lord Keynes and the U.S. Treasury's Harry D. White unveiled their international currency plans, many a U.S. banker has grumbled publicly & privately at the financial mumbo jumbo of "unitas" and "bancor" (TIME, April 5 et seq.). Almost to the last vice president they have pleaded for a simpler, more down-to-earth plan...
This cocky, whip-smart, 260-lb. jumbo could: 1) eat a dozen eggs at a sitting, 2) bat out a brilliant legal opinion with his eyes closed, 3) keep cocktail parties in stitches with slapstick impersonations of Herbert Hoover and Eleanor Roosevelt...
Stage Door Canteen (United Artists) is Hollywood's double-jumbo version of the kind of entertainment that happens nightly at Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen for men in uniform. In the picture a number of lovelorn soldiers and their canteen girls are deluged with an avalanche of celebrity performances that keeps pouring for more than two hours...
...sixth inning which saw the Stahlmen bunch four hits to manufacture three runs told the story in the Jumbo affair. With two men out, Sherman Clark hit a sharp single to left, and Gleason followed with a two-bagger, Clark pulling up at third, Captain Moe Berg dumped a bunt down the third base line and Clark romped home while the Jumbo infield waited anxiously and vainly for the ball to roll foul. Walt Sorgi clouted a long double, scoring Gleason and Berg, to clinch the ball game...