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...Saturday in Gotham: Dropped over to Commodore Music Shop to protest the issuing of "Mop Mop" and picked up some new dises ... Best of these were "Clarinet Marmalade" with Bill Davison, Ed Hall, and Brunies; "Squeeze Me" by Yank Lawson, Miff Mole, and Cless; and the same tune recorded by Cliff Jackson, and Pee Wee ... For lovers of boogie there is a new "Streamlino Train" by Cripple Clarence Lofton on Session label ... Next to Condon's Town Hall broadcast featuring excellent Butterfield, Kaminsky, Mole, and Muggsy along with poor Krupa and indifferent Haggart ... Saw Haggart in the bar next door...
...other units-perhaps for most- it was a mop-up. TIME Correspondent Will Lang, accompanying casehardened veterans of a division which had fought through Sicily and Italy, cabled that its soldiers found the southern France campaign "the damndest one ever: all marching and little fighting, through some of the prettiest mountain country most G.I.s had ever seen, chasing Germans through lovely villages unscarred...
...never remember which one was Marianne, which Marguerite. Chic, brunette Marianne ("hostesses delighted in the brilliance of her conversation") made indolent young William work so hard that he passed the Royal Navy exams. William was "deuced fond" of Marianne, but he loved vivacious Marguerite, whose hair was "a riotous mop of natural curls" (Marianne had to use curlpapers...
...this campaign the air force was fighting for its own survival as well as for the ground troops; if the Japs could seize the whole railroad, and mop up eastern China at their leisure, Chennault would lose vital bases in Kiwangsi, Fukien and Chekiang provinces from which his patrols now fan out over Shanghai, Hong Kong and the South China Sea. If these fields are lost, an approach to the China coast by westbound Nimitz-MacArthur forces will be immeasurably more difficult...
Kluge took a bolder course. He left the Seventh Army to hold the British and Canadians in Normandy. He counted on the Americans spending time to mop up Brittany while he was scraping together reserves to seal off the Brittany peninsula. But he had underestimated U.S. speed and daring. Leaving mopping-up to wait, the Americans had already taken Le Mans and were swinging north against the Seventh Army's rear when Kluge's reinforcements began to arrive over his battered roads. Underrating the American threat, Kluge threw his reinforcements into an attempt to push his dangling flank...