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British pursuit pilots will still call to one another their sporting "Tallyho" as they sight the enemy and plunge out of formation to attack. The serious Germans will still rasp their guttural "Achtung! Achtung!" as they spot the foe. But the gallant, hell-for-leather professional pilots of the American Volunteer Group suddenly glimpsing a Jap formation will no longer have reason to exchange their gleeful call: "Certified check...
...Will Bradley rut and really play some jazz. Freddie Slack's boogie-woogie shows the strong influence of Albert Ammons, plus an amazing talent for employing highly original bass figures. Top honors, however, go to McKinley's vocal. For a change he sings authentic blues, with a dirty old rasp in his voice which is pleasant to hear after the corny Will Bradley novelties (COLUMBIA) . . . Speaking of boogie-woogie, COLUMBIA has just released an album of reissues. Offerings include the Harry James Trio (Albert Ammons, Harry James, Johnny Williams, Eddie Dougherty); Pete Johnson and Joe Turner on Roll 'Em Pete...
...weekend Willkie went to New York City to tour Democratic Brooklyn. His voice was tattered to a rasp. Still he refused to make a Fourth-of-July speech, still turned down the pleas of politicians to let loose with a ring-tailed, rabble-rousing rannygazoo...
...voice physician, Dr. Harold Barnard, warned him a hundred times to slow down, talk less. Neither pleading nor orders had effect. Said Dr. Barnard for the umptieth time: "He needs a policeman, not a doctor." One evening last week, as the candidate's voice waned into a hoarse rasp, the doctor ordered him flatly to cut it out, sat comfortably down to dinner. Suddenly the train slowed, stopped. Willkie's voice boomed through the dining-car loudspeaker. He had sighted another cluster of voters. Dr. Barnard sighed, got up, switched off the loudspeaker so that he could enjoy...
...their old military tradition, against an enemy of huge numerical superiority; ... of those old combatants whom I commanded during the last war; ... of the men and women on the roads, driven away from their homes." Amid thunder's boom and the crackle of lightning that made radios rasp, Frenchmen heard him ask for peace...