Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprising was the word for it. The 62nd National Lawn Tennis Championships, which promised to be a bust, turned out to be a pretty good show-largely because several top-ranking players in uniform wangled unexpected furloughs* and played unexpectedly good tennis. One of them, Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer, played...
The new policy quickly began to pay off. News of the Navy's unexpected aerial and sea attack on Japan's Marcus Island base was announced in Washington while the attack was still under way. Then, at week's end, came further results. It was announced in...
THE PINK UMBRELLA -Frances Crane- J. B, Lippincott ($2). Honeymooning in Manhattan, San Francisco Sleuth Pat Abbott encounters an acquaintance of Paris expatriate days and is plunged into the torrid troubles of a quarrelsome clan, culminating in double murders. Abbott's frequent clashes with a babyfaced, steel-willed police...
Confused, sales-happy impresarios explain these unexpected invitations to the dance three ways: 1) Sponsors, well aware of the war-narrowed pattern of U.S. life, now prefer programs with established audiences to new gambles; 2) advertising agencies have not got the manpower to build new shows; 3) rather than a...
The unexpected move bypassed Jap-held Bairoko Harbor, Vila airfield and lesser positions in such jungle islands as Gizo. Vella Lavella was important as bait. The Jap bit. He tried almost immediately to land reinforcements on Vella Lavella and came down in 20-to-30 troop-carrying barges escorted by...