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Bomb on the Balcony. As Sartout got more and more involved in politics, the job of running the paper fell to Mazzella, who was born in Oran, was a war cor respondent with the French army in Italy and the U.S. 9th Armored Division. On Mazzella, the French vigilantes centered their attacks. Shortly after he published an editorial trying to explain the political reasons for Moorish terrorism, a bomb was exploded on the balcony of his second-floor apartment. Next day his mail brought a warning from the French vigilantes: "That was just the beginning." Two months later, a friend...
...Ouillis (near Oran) a guard surprised a group of armed men who were trying to wreck a power transformer...
...Died. Oran ("Hot Lips") Page, 46, barrel-chested, gravel-voiced jazzman whose warm-toned, wildly improvised trumpet playing on such records as The Sheik of Araby and Hucklebuck brought him the international accolades of jazz addicts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...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...