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Boston bands take a turn for the 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...
...World War II was the torpedoing of the freighter Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her-then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept...
Nine Jap destroyers and light cruisers were sunk, possibly two more. U.S. losses: one ship-the valiant cruiser Helena, which, when sunk, had been firing for six minutes and was on her third and fourth victims. Early this week, another naval force was engaged in the Kula Gulf. In a night battle lasting into the next day, one Jap cruiser, three destroyers were sunk, two more destroyers hit so badly that they probably went down...
After the interrogation, the nervous pilot gave details. When he got out of his aircraft a tiny snake had struck at him, sunk its fangs into his boot so deeply that it had to be shaken off and killed. The Axis airmen whom he had fought had worried...
...newsmen could not yet tell how successful Ep Hoyt will be in his new job (or even whether he had one); many a man successful in private business has sunk in bureaucracy's quicksands. But they did know that Ep Hoyt, the up-from-the-ranks editor and publisher of the popular Portland Oregonian is patient, smart, has a rare knack of making and keeping friends. They felt sure that, given half a chance, he could click...