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Proceeding to other matters, Frankie Newton was to return to the Ken, but was prevented by union trouble. Lionel Hampton is opening for a month's engagement at the Tic Toc February 28. Thus with Ellington at the RKO Boston for a week then, and with Davision at the Ken, Boston's in for a fine load of jazz...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...retreat of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's German and Italian troops in North Africa, but tried to explain that in fluid desert warfare the Rommel tactic was to lead the British on. A popular quip became: "A clock moves forward saying tictac; Rommel moves backward saying tac-tic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Nevermore | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Radcliffe today has the Harvard faculty and signature on diplomas but no other tic-up. And according to President Ada L. Comstock that's the best arrangement. "We have the advantages of close association without the disadvantages of merging," she says, "we have our own college life, the good points of a small college, and the girls get a chance at the extra-curricular leadership that they'd otherwise miss...

Author: By Armand SCHWAB Jr., | Title: All About Radcliffe: It Ain't Necessarily So | 12/15/1942 | See Source »

...public highway. Late in the afternoon one can drive along the road and see hundreds of men-whites here, blacks there- standing under a shower, washing off a half-inch accumulation of the day's grime. Soldiers love to pick quaint names for their camps: Virgin Lane, Luna(tic) Park, Scroungers' Rest, Hog Willow, and One Hundred Twenty-fifth Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Yanks in New Guinea | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Should your tastes run to larger bands, the Tic Toc, opposite the Met, has been featuring some excellent ones, though Johnny McGee is not a very appetizing prospect this week. The local ballrooms, the Raymond and the Roseland, frequently have top-notch orchestras. For complete details, see the Boston Post every Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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