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Ever since "Rum and Coca Cola's" ban from the major networks, Joe Sidnor has been frantically searching for a copy of the words. Try Ben "Showers" Nielson, Joe. A moment of silence for our old pal K.G. (Cagey) Pickle, the Birmingham Buzz Bomb. Known to the third deck and...
Franz Lehar, venerable (74), Hungarian-born Viennese operetta king, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow (1905), was reported under "house arrest" in his Vienna home. Aryan Lehar's only other reported brush with the Nazis occurred three years ago when he refused to obey...
¶ An Oregon housewife, holding her temper firmly in check, sent her ration board a restrained greeting: "34 blue stamps, 34 red stamps. 15 Ibs. of sugar invalidated. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year."
McAuliffe's reply was mimeographed, passed around to his troops. With it went his Christmas message: "The Allied troops are counterattacking in force. ... By holding Bastogne we insure the success of the Allied armies. We are giving our country and our loved ones at home a worthy Christmas present...
There was little else merry about Bastogne's Christmas, but the war soon looked up. On the 24th there had been a weather break. Tony McAuliffe could report to the Ninth Air Force that its Lightnings and Thunderbolts had done a "simply tremendous" job of messing up enemy tanks...