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...respect tremendously, and after hearing McRae on Body and Soul, he remarked that even Hawkins would have to dig hard to keep up with that kind of jazz. Maybe I'm all wet. Maybe they'll be calling him "Miller's Folly," but I may as well go overboard completely and say that Roscoe McRae is the musician of the year, so why don't you do yourself a favor and go down to hear...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 2/21/1941 | See Source »

Cheer. In Germany, natives were startled by the fiendish whistles made by empty beer bottles tossed overboard by celebrating R. A. F. bomber crews returning home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...game with Axel: he could make one of Axel's toys disappear, and tell Axel, "Whistle for it." Then Axel's toy would miraculously reappear from under the Frenchman's coat. The game broke up when Axel grabbed the Frenchman's hat and hurled it overboard, shrieking: "Whistle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Odyssey of Axel | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

This week I had planned to go overboard for Benny Goodman's new band, but I've become so tired of writing in the superlative that I think I'll say something about riff tunes today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 11/30/1940 | See Source »

...apparently hit a mine, presumably laid by the same raider that had previously mined antipodean waters (TIME, July 1) in Bass Strait, between Australia and Tasmania. (A few hours earlier an unidentified British freighter had met the same fate.) Third Engineer Mac B. Bryan of Randleman, N. C. leaped overboard from the City of Rayville without a life belt. Unable to swim, he yelled through the darkness to his mates but they could not find him. The mine blew the City of Rayville's nose off. Survivors kept bits of metal, which landed in the lifeboats, for examination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: City of Rayville | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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