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...speculation in Canadian mining stocks. As prospectors staked out some 8,000 claims in the Timmins area, penny stocks became dollar stocks on the Toronto Exchange, and paper fortunes piled up almost overnight. Though most of the glory and the proven reserves belong to the lode's Yank discoverer, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Canadians were particularly pleased when one of their own companies seemed on the verge of its own strike. It was only a small company with a long-shot name-Windfall Oils & Mines Ltd.-but it began moving quickly on faith, hope and rumor...
Cutty and Zutty were there. So were Peanuts, Woody, Yank, Wingy, Red, Pee Wee and Willie the Lion.* Sammy Davis Jr. was supposed to come, but he pleaded "fatigue" at the last minute and didn't show. Just as well: he would have seemed out of place at this reunion of jazz's elder statesmen, come to celebrate one of their...
...Trombonist Robert ("Cutty") Cutshall; Trumpeters John ("Yank") Lawson, Henry ("Red") Allen, Joseph ("Wingy") Manone; Drummer Arthur ("Zutty") Singleton; Clarinetists Charles ("Pee Wee") Russell, Michael ("Peanuts") Hucko; Bandleader Wood-row ("Woody") Herman; Pianist Willie ("The Lion") Smith...
...space-tracking station, one of 16 strung around the world to communicate with orbiting U.S. astronauts. Washington fatalistically agreed to dismantle the station, then stood by quietly as 5,000 Zanzibaris-egged on by Russian sailors-coursed through the capital carrying signs that read, "Go Home Yank." But at the same time, a U.S. Navy task force, known as the "Concord Squadron" and headed by the attack carrier Bon Homme Richard, steamed into the Indian Ocean-merely on a good-will mission, the Pentagon pointed out. Still, all that heavy-caliber good will might have a sobering effect...
Trouble is, it is India in the year 1944. There's a war on, and at command HQ the best interests of Allied unity seem to demand the death penalty for a Yank who kills a limey. "He's got to hang," observes British Medico Trevor Howard. Only Mitchum thinks that justice must stand "apart from power and apart from might." All he has to do is locate the army psychiatrist who was shipped off to the bush because he wrote a medical report diagnosing Wynn's insanity. While looking, Mitchum consorts with France Nuyen, a plump...