Word: oran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pandemonium was saved for the old masters. Trumpeter Oran "Hot Lips" Page's "émotion authentique" blues soon had them breaking their hands for joy. Grizzled Sidney Bechet, who has been nozzling out New Orleans classics on clarinet and soprano sax since 1911, got a Toscanini's wild and respectful ovation, And when Yardbird Parker cut loose, puffing his tenor sax like a big cigar, the zazous drooled, twitched and finally screamed...
...elimination of the French Navy [at Oran, Alexandria and Dakar] . . . produced a profound impression in every country. Here was this Britain which . . . strangers had supposed to be quivering on the brink of surrender . . . striking ruthlessly at her dearest friends of yesterday . . . It was made plain that the British War Cabinet feared nothing and would stop at nothing...
...Fownes ("Slim") Somerville, 66, British naval hero brought out of retirement by Winston Churchill for service in World War II; of coronary thrombosis; in Wells, England. Torpedo Expert Somerville was deputy commander of British naval units in the historic evacuation of Dunkirk, led the British fleet into action at Oran, was skipper of famed Force H which helped keep the Mediterranean open for shipping...
...bear him out-although when TIME does make an error, we usually hear from the experts first. Recently, we heard from one five years late. He wrote in to say that in 1942 we ran a picture and captioned it Bizerte Harbor. It was not Bizerte at all, but Oran Harbor. He knew because he was there at the time and would have written us then if wartime security regulations had not intervened. Now that he was out of the Service, however, he thought he ought to set the record straight...
Four days after the Bermuda Sky Queen's forced landing, a Bristol land plane, operated by the French Compagnie des Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux, crashed in the Mediterranean on a flight from Marseille to Oran, Algeria. Forty-one died; two were rescued...