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...member of a swing band, one of the gravest risks you run is of being killed in an automobile accident. DEATH TOLL SHOCKS BIZ headlined Variety last week. Latest death, after a crash near Conneaut, Ohio, was that of Leon ("Chu") Berry, one of the best hot saxophonists in the business. The musicians' union recently tried to reduce casualties by limiting jumps between dates to 400 miles a day. But with Berry's death the toll of bandsmen fatalities reached more than 100 this year. The hazard is not just a matter of long drives between engagements...
Half-Way Mark? Thus were lost the ninth, the tenth, the eleventh U.S.-owned ships sunk in World War II. Intrinsically these losses-in cargoes, in bottoms-did not mean much. But they added to the toll, not only of lost tonnages and lives, but of lost tempers. They brought U.S. ship losses half way to the total of 22 which were lost in World War I before the U.S. temper carried the nation into...
Interest in these courses has been great in the past, as is shown by last year's enrollment of 1760 students, both men and women. National defense has taken its toll in the extension courses too, for this year there are only 1485 enrollments, probably because of the new job vacancies made by Army service and allied defense efforts...
...battles of encirclement at Bryansk and Vyazma, which preceded last week's fighting (TIME, Oct. 20), had taken a terrible toll. The German claim of eight armies of 67 infantry divisions, six cavalry and seven tank divisions, altogether 648,000 prisoners, was probably exaggerated at least twice over; but even so many of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's best were lost...
...were never cold or uncomfortable," said Jim Rothschild ocC, speaking of the group which climbed through ley rain and snow on Mount Adams, where the weather took a toll of one camper's life this weekend. While the mercury dropped close to zero on the mountain top the Outing Club boys found sung haven in the Crag Camp, below freeline...