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...called "Riff-R.A.F." seems to be doing a pretty good job of shooing the "Kultured" German Air Force back to where it belongs and with a handful of planes, too. What does Herr Adlermann say to that...
...called "neutral" military observers who frequently pontificate in your footnotes? Are they the same false prophets and professional propagandists who told the American people that the French Army was the best (sic) in the world and that the Maginot Line was impregnable? Wow they tell us that the riff-R.A.F. pilots are superior to the Germans and Italians [TIME, Aug. 19]. Whence comes this sudden superiority...
...years later II Duce was to put an arm around Miller's shoulder, tell him "Maybe I shall be a reporter again, too." Webb Miller made a warm friend of Spain's Primo de Rivera during the Riff campaign, later wangled direct news items from him, toll prepaid. Astride a sandbagged parapet, he flashed the first news of Italy's advance on Ethiopia, got the word to Rome ahead of the official Italian story...
...ever since he returned from France last fall, he agreed completely with me. He then went on to play for me, in the style that I have always considered to be tops on tenor sax, a full hour of "Limehouse Blues," Improvising all the while around a little riff that I swiped from Chu Berry down at the Southland last week...
...hummed the riff once and the Hawk used it for a full hour in the most relaxed and sincere style that I've heard since his One Hour with Red McKenzie eleven years ago. But Hawk agreed with me that the stuff today is, definitely not relaxed or sincere like it used to be, to wit: Count Basie's rough house rhythm, Jimmy Dorsey's twittering saxophone, and Kostelanetz's weeping violin cadenzas. He went on to say that he reads my column faithfully every week and shows it around Gotham, where they're beginning to realize that Harvard guys...