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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exile was no novelty to George II. In & out of the pepperpot politics of pre-World War II Greece, he had spent twelve years in more or less bored exile in Bucharest and London—a small-scale royal life of fast cars, lovely ladies, Mayfair clubs and divorce. In 1935 he was taken back to his throne in Athens. Five years later war rolled down his rocky peninsula. George stayed with his people to the end, fled only at the last moment...
Present. The striking forces which Air Marshal Harris sends into battle are so concentrated as to change, not only the scale, but the nature of aerial warfare-just as the Greek phalanx changed the nature of foot warfare in its day. Last week Air Marshal Harris' forces were unprecedented. After the Cologne raid (1,130 planes), the R.A.F. swept France (1,000), struck Essen (1,036), swept France (200), bombed Bremen (200), swept the Channel coast (500), revisited the Ruhr (about 200), hit Emden (perhaps 200), and fanned out to smaller objectives (over 2,000). Altogether Air Marshal Harris...
Lambeth will miss him, especially its ex-convicts, admiring a man who operated on such a resplendent scale. He had achieved Britain's biggest charity racket since the palmy days of Horatio Bottomly. In the pubs they said: "There was more give away since they rumbled* 'im larst Christmas nor ever before...
...Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; book by Rodgers and Hart; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman and Rodgers in association with Richard Kollmar) started the 1942-43 season but possibly ended an era: it may well be Broadway's last fine-feathers, six-figures musical until after the war. Its large-scale lavishness-a beautiful chorus, gorgeous costumes, stage-deep dance routines-is one of its two real assets. The other is Ray Bolger (George White's Scandals, On Your Toes), its long-faced, nimble-footed star...
Said General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson: "To win our freedom we have built an industrial machine such as the world has never before contemplated. We cannot scale it down to a pre-war level. We cannot think for a minute of dropping back to where we were...