Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much prettier job than the more recent version (COLUMBIA). The other is a Count Basie album, particularly valuable due to the inclusion of Swinging On the Dalsy Chain, one of the Count's first jobs with the full band. Execution is rather rough, but it has that old Basie jump (DECCA...
With a new wardrobe of bow-tres and business suits, Errol Flynn takes advantages of "Footsteps in the Dark" to jump several centuries from the days of Robin Hood to modern times. Surprisingly enough for his numerous back-biters, the change seems to have done Hollywood's cavalier some good. His part is that of an idle upper-cruster with an insatiable yen for detective work, so much so that he leads a double life, writing mysteries on the side. His research work leads him to an amusing set of experiences with an archaic strip-teaser and the murders which...
...Partlow, able to do 23 feet and 6 feet with case, will spark both the broad and high jump. Dave Ives is second man in the broad by virtue of his past leaps of more than 22 feet. John Bunker, who can also get up to 6 feet, and Mike Zara will team with Partlow in the high...
Latin America was so nearly solid behind the U.S. against the Berlin-Rome Axis that, in effect, an All-American Axis had been created. Whether Latin-American statesmen had been moved by the Good Neighbor policy or simply by a desire to jump on the band wagon now that the U.S. was acting vigorously, the immediate effect was the same. Latin Americans are realists, and active U.S. support for Britain had made the cause of freedom worth joining...
Long a nightmare to the U.S. State Department has been the Nazi airline web in South America (TIME, Jan. 27). German pilots fly regularly over 18,850 route miles, most of them in highly strategic territory, some of them just a short jump from the Panama Canal. But last week the web was weakening, looked as if it might, some day disappear...