Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese had to hurry, because the United Nations had finally caught on: from China's airdromes the Allies could launch the aerial thrust that would smash Japan's industries, hack to bits its traffic in the South China...
...China World War II could be lost, just as it could be lost on the Russian front. Major General Lewis Brereton's Air Forces from India could smash destructively at the Jap in the north-as they did-and the R.A.F. could go on raining bombs on the Jap's ports on the Bay of Bengal-as it did. Stilwell could fight his way out. The R.A.F. could batter the German in Europe, turn back the Jap in the Coral Sea. But if the foe struck deep enough into China from the south, if he could pile...
Before Hitler's smash at Russia, fewer than twelve U.S. cinemansions were showing Soviet films. As Russian resistance to Hitler's onslaught rose, so did Americans' curiosity. At present nearly 200 theaters are playing Soviet pictures, 2,000 carry their short subjects. Variety, the bible of U.S. show business, recently made this turnabout official, crowed in its Blitzkrieg jargon: Vodka Films...
Conductor Wallenstein pored over 120 operas, picked what he thought were the most artistic, entertaining, representative. To start the series, he shrewdly selected the best-liked U.S. folk opera: George Gershwin's jazz-flavored saga of Charleston's Catfish Row, Porgy & Bess, now a smash hit in its Manhattan revival. To get the Broadway cast, headed by Anne Brown and Todd Duncan, arrangements had to be made to hold the theater curtain until...
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...