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...Play. The Museum directors had a still more ambitious idea. They decided to surround Bunk with colleagues from the New Orleans past. They found Papa Mutt Carey, famous "dirty" trumpeter, working as a Pullman porter on the Southern Pacific. They got Kid Ory, greatest of oldtime tailgate* trombonists, from Los Angeles, where he had been raising chickens. They tracked down Clarinetist Wade Whaley at the Moore shipyards on San Francisco Bay. Ringing doorbells in San Francisco's Negro section, they finally located Bertha Gonsoulin, onetime pianist for Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. They added local Negro talent...
Blows & Counterblows. Like three great scythes, Red Armies were trying to slash their way through and behind the German positions in south Russia last week. Said Moscow's Red Star: "By strengthening our blows we will be in a position to surround new masses and inflict new losses. The harvest will be great if we can reap it in time...
Throughout these eight days Axis rearguard troops backed up, fighting desperately while the remnants of Erwin Rommel's once-great African army streamed on ahead. German artillery blazed away, rocked back, blazed away again from the mountains that surround Italy's loveliest African seaport. Futilely the Luftwaffe rose to ward off the blows of a superior enemy. At last they gave up. Tripoli fell in flames and smoke, much of its harbor facilities, many of its military installations demolished by the fleeing Nazis. They continued to flee as light British warships crowded in and shelled them from...
...most remarkable documents of World War II-a summary of the Red Army's great winter offensives in the south-the Russians said last week: >The single objective of all the southern offensives was to "surround and defeat the German troops at Stalingrad." > "This plan was carried out in November and December...
...Kaiser had barely seen his steel dream fulfilled before he was dreaming new dreams. At his star-spangled blowing-in ceremony he told his guests that Fontana was still "just a seed": he wants to surround his steel mill with synthetic rubber plants, plastics production, etc. to round out a Kaiser empire that already embraces cement, magnesium, shipbuilding...