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...humorous this week. The Tie Toe has sunk from Earl Hines to somebody with the unbelievable name of Stud Mosely. And the Ken, where no so many syllables of recorded time ago we heard Sidney Bechet, and J. C. Higgembotham, and Red Cless, and James P. Johnson, is featuring Sherman Kleeman's hand and a mysterious trio that not even the management knows the name of as yet. Sure it's funny. But, as Howard Mumford Jones used to say, not so damned funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

...slip of excitement caused by the visit of Major General Sherman Miles gradually died away this week, in the gleam of waxed floors and polished brass doorknobs remained in the rooms of Leverett House to meet the color inspections of the company commander...

Author: By Frank K. Kelly, | Title: Specialist's Corner | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

Coming up in the near future, the specialists heard; was the prospect of an inspection by Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles, head of the First Service Command...

Author: By Frank K. Kelly, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

...troops from the field, made 1,500 men surrender to his inferior forces. At Black Creek, in 1863, after five days marching and fighting, he captured the Union's Colonel Abel D. Streight with all his artillery and 1,200 men. So disruptive were his raids that General Sherman once said that Forrest must be taken "if it costs 10,000 lives and breaks the Treasury." Forrest never was taken. At the war's end he weighed a plan to escape with his men to Mexico and go on fighting from there, but rejected it as a fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: From Black Creek to Kiel | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...best-known type is the 30-ton General Sherman tank which is heavily armored and strongly armed, which without reservation must be described as 'good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Praise from Herr Hubert | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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