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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When British planes arrive over Greece to bomb Nazi submarine bases, there are still hundreds of Greeks who go to the rooftops. There they cheer and sing-and spit down at the despised Italian carabinieri who shoot up at them. On March 25, Greek Independence Day, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens was piled high with flowers during the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Where Democracy Was Born | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...melodrama. The picnic had been a success--a perfect afternoon and evening, and the sunburn on his face had brought back a partly forgotten feeling of well-being as he had lain on the ground gazing up through the trees. When it had gotten dark, the firelight and the singing had flickered through the woods together. The others had sung unconcernedly, as if there were more picnics coming soon. It wasn't the way Vag had expected them to sing on the last of their Concord evenings together...

Author: By J. P. L. ., | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/27/1942 | See Source »

...foreseeing new threats to Scottish livelihood in the bounding Dominion increase in steel production, in the "staggering" rate of U.S. shipbuilding, made clear that the home rule of Scottish nationalists is not the answer. Those who raise the "Scots Wha Hae" cry, he said, will "have to learn to sing it to the tune of the Atlantic Charter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOTLAND: Scots Wha Hae | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

With a 9.8 clocking in the 100, and a 21.4 time sing in the 220, Coolidge began to look like a second Pirnie, and when he leaped 22 feet, 3 inches in the broad jump, he was a second Pirnie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 SPLITS DOUBLE EVENT WITH BLUE | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Monday's musicale was assured of becoming a smash hit when Jimmy Rushing opened his jaws to sing "Harvard Blues" while Count Basie tinkled along behind him at the piano. But in the excitement of the occasion don't forget the local boys who made good in front of the home crowd that night. There were, of course, the two winners, Burgstaller and Dunn, who continued their brilliant rivalry on the tenor sax later in the week when Andy Kirk came to town, but there were some others whom I'd like to mention here who played more than...

Author: By Harry Munroe, | Title: SWING | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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