Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weapons. They often use English. They catch names and will shout: "Mr. Manning, withdraw!" A Marine far out in front and reporting by "walkie-talkie" wireless was asked how things stood. The Japs were horning in, for the answer came in precise, clipped English: "My position is excellent, thank...
Lacking food, the Danes still had a king. On his 72nd birthday, Sept. 26, Christian, the elder brother of Norway's Haakon, sent a curt answer to Hitler's flowery message of good will. The answer: "Thank you, Christian, Rex." This week Christian lay injured by a fall from his horse* and the Nazis had applied new pressures to make Denmark a "model province" of the Third Reich...
...among the top U.S. bandleaders. Until then "Spike" had been modestly playing what he calls "society music" (jazzed up Chopin and Debussy) at Los Angeles' Jonathan Club. Now he is being fought over by several Hollywood studios, is already signed up for a Warner Brothers musical called Thank Your Lucky Star. Says "Spike" of this sudden burst of popularity: "Gee, the prices are getting so high I have to make them repeat their offers three times before I can believe them...
...Hollywood Frances Rose (Dinah) Shore packed enough activity into last fortnight to exhaust two or three less dynamic individuals. She started work on her first picture (Eddie Cantor's Thank Your Lucky Stars), broadcast her own show (Dinah Shore in Person), sang in Eddie Cantor's Time to Smile broadcast, and a few times at Army camps, appeared at the opening of Hollywood's "Stage Door" Canteen. For her it was a comparatively torpid seven days. The week before, in one day she put on seven soldier shows...
Said Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, handing them over to Major General Carl M. Spaatz: "Goodby and thank you Eagle Squadrons 71, 121, 133 of the Fighter Command, and good hunting to you." At week's end they were off on their first raid over France wearing U.S. Army wings. Four Focke-Wulf 190s crashed under their guns...