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...violinist named Johnny Black. The song did not even find a publisher. Black shelved it and went to work on another, the durable Dardanella, which became the rage of 1919 and has been under continuous revival ever since. But, according to Tin Pan Alley's best-informed chroniclers, luckless Johnny Black sold Dardanella outright for $25, and, when he got around to suing Publisher Fred Fisher, who made a million out of it, netted only...
...Night & day the waddling cargo ships and their escorts were under attack or threat of attack. According to the survivors, at least ten vessels were sunk. One of them was the Canadian destroyer St. Croix, formerly the U.S.S. McCook. The St. Croix was picking up the crews of other luckless vessels when a torpedo hit her. She went down in a small-size holocaust, taking all but one of her 147-man crew...
...presidents of the imperial universities have been summoned to Tokyo to explain why Japan's inventors have not kept up with the U.S. and British scientists. Said Tojo to the luckless educators: "A change in attitude . . . should be made. [You must] comply with these demands of the nation...
...TIME might have said that "almost all" (instead of "many") officers think Kimmel and Short's immediate dismissal was both just and sufficient punishment. It may well be that future historians will blame Pearl Harbor less on the luckless commanders than on national overoptimism, complacency, isolationist psychology and the custom of getting tight on Saturday night...
...film shows the official Nazi sound-truck rolling incongruously through the streets of the beautiful Welsh village, shows it croaking: "Achtung! Achtung! (Attention!)", shows the village's men, women & children listening to the Nazi commands, some with anger, some with disgust, some with resignation, all quietly. The luckless bravery of the conquered is shown in the slow glance with which a miner glances behind him for pursuers at a secret meeting in the hills; powerless loathing is shown in the slow movement with which a housewife pulls down an open window and shuts out the sound-truck...