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...record. Every musician in the late Glenn Miller's band was expert, yet the firing rate was tremendous. Marion Hutton couldn't hit a note with a sledge-hammer, yet she sang with Miller for over four years. Few will deny that Marion was a highly desirable little morsel. She had, moreover, a prodigious personality that carried her over long after the initial shock of her sex appeal wore off. There never was any reason, however, to preserve her art on records for posterity...
...note was an ultimatum, to expire this week. If satisfaction was not received, said Padilla, Mexico would "take a position in accordance with Mexican honor." Translated into cold fact, this threat would probably mean, not war, but the grabbing of all Axis property in Mexico-a juicy morsel estimated at just under one billion dollars. As for actual war, U.P. reported a Foreign Office authority as saying, "the ultimate effect will be a declaration of war, but that 'will take some time...
Coach John Chase's Yardling hockey team has feasted on a fat diet of prep school teams to chalk up its seven straight wins, but this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock at the Boston. Skating Club they may find a more indigestible morsel when they meet their first college rival, the undefeated Princeton Freshman sextet...
Jefferson had no belief in a bodily resurrection, ends his Bible: "There laid they Jesus, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." But he believed in his own version. He wrote of it: "A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus...
Since the British overhauled and the Germans scuttled at sea the 32,000-ton Columbus (TIME, Jan. 1), the Empress of Britain was by far the largest ship sunk in World War II. For Germany she was a huge and tasty morsel to top off a feast of British tonnage which U-boats and bombers have lately claimed in the sea lanes north and west of Ireland. Last fortnight's claim of 327,000 tons in one week was upped to 490,000 tons in ten days, a good portion by Nazi bombers such as harpooned the Empress...