Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been truly marvelous that the town has suffered practically no damage with all the hell in the port. A Frenchman who had been caught in a hotel near the port told me he had never seen such superb gunnery in his life-that every shot which came in landed in the port and none lit in the town. Some shell fragments did scatter, naturally, and in at least one other locality, some houses were hit and a number of Arabs were killed. However, I would not have believed it possible for operations on such a scale to cause so little...
Back in the States, the Marines spoke with admiration of their successors, of the way they had settled down after the first few days under fire, of their superb supply system, of bulldozers that thundered through the jungles beating out roads for the cleanup drive into the interior. The big outfit had taken over, had killed 1,000 more Japs up to Jan. 14. Looking to other conquests, the history-minded Marines were satisfied...
...real majesty from beside the throne. So last week the U.S. music world helped the Duke celebrate his 20th year as a band leader. The American Federation of Musicians officially blessed a National Ellington Week in honor of famed Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, whose flamboyant black band has played superb jazz longer than any other orchestra in the history of U.S. popular music...
...anyone is ever successful, Ellington will be the man. There is no man living who can touch his combined genius for melody, orchestration, and conducting, in any realm of music. With the greatest jazz band in the world, with some of the best living soloists. Ellington has a superb medium for his ideas...
Unlike most of his tribe, Porter neither squirms nor seeks solitude on opening nights. He always turns up in evening dress with a superb dinner on board and a large party of friends. He sits way down front, holds court, applauds like...