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...radio comedy show, stands for "It's That Man Again." That Man is Tommy Handley, a middle-aged British radio comedian whose unabashed puns, silly syllogisms and noisy sound effects have given him a weekly radio audience that reportedly numbers 18,000,000. Only BBC's famed newscast has more listeners...
...best the harbor of Guam could shelter only about 100 ships. But in comparison to Pearl Harbor, it was nearly 4,000 miles closer to the war. From Australia this week a radio newscast reported that five-star Admiral Chester W. Nimitz would move his headquarters from Pearl Harbor to Guam shortly after the first of the year...
...avoid the frontal guns of the U.S. formations. It has not worked. > The Germans revealed hitherto unpublished information on U.S. tactics: the bomber formations are protected by other Fortresses that carry no bombs (presumably fill their bays with extra tons of ammunition to fire at German fighters. A Nazi newscast drew an eloquent picture of battle over Germany: "Thus more than 1,000 U.S. airmen, covered by armored planes, are defending themselves with more than 3,000 machine guns and cannon...
...believe we have created a brand new type of newscast-a factual news review in which each day one of our editors will appraise the day's developments and each day our correspondents all over the world will help to make the news come alive...
...after day Bob Sherrod sent us fine dispatches from Attu, all of them important because they gave our editors such a clear understanding of how and why the Americans won. From all those reports we quoted only two columns directly in TIME-but all of them were fascinating newscast material...