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...darkness fell, the frogs began their insistent chorus. Over the black waters rustled the murmurous night noises of the Florida swamp where the big Eastern Airliner lay. She lay sprawled just as she had slewed into the water at 9 o'clock that morning, her big engines jerked from their mounts and dropped near her left wing tip in the mud. Inside her cabin, water was knee-deep, but the lights still burned. Huddled on the seats were 13 passengers, two pilots, a steward...
Sharply reversing a trend which seemed destined to swamp it under Government and Economics, English as a field of concentration was boosted 50 per cent over last year by the 117 Freshmen who picked it. Out of a total of 916 study cards expected, 30 are still due the Committee on the Choice of Electives...
...unfortunately they have to squeeze in a chorus for everybody. Consequently, one man will just be getting in the mood, when he's through. However, Cootie Williams and Coleman Hawkins make the date outstanding... Earl Hines' distinctive barrelhouse piano is graced by an exceptionally good rhythm section on In Swamp Lands. Reverse is called Everything Depends on You, ideal dance number featuring Madeline Green on vocal, backed by "the boys." The lyrics are swell, the background harmony very tasteful, and finally, there's a long gooey tenor chorus which seems to fit in with the mood (BLUEBIRD...
About a month ago a small Free French force left the great swamp known as Lake Chad (see map, p. 23), heading north. They passed through nightmarish, weird, surrealistic terrain-along an enormous dry river bed, past sudden oval valleys with lush black soil floors, across a stark desert of slippery sand and sharp stones, across an eroded tableland, through the magnificent mountain peaks (highest: 11,200 ft.) of Tibesti, along the edges of 1,000 ft.-precipices looking down on valleys full of bulrushes, across wastes of crumbling volcanic rock. They drank from sweet wells and pools bitter...
...landlubbing natives from the interior who had never seen the sea before the war. But last week Kenya's Navy made up in gallantry for what it lacked in gear and seamanship. It embarked some Nigerian shock troops from a Kenya port, landed them efficiently in a mangrove swamp near the Italian Somaliland border. Marching all night through a deserted countryside, the Nigerians raided Ras Chiamboni, formerly an important base for Italian operations in Kenya but now nearly undefended. They burned the whole town except for a mosque, then returned to their colleagues in empire...