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...detectives chewing cigars and chicle over his strangled wife. All efforts to find his alibi prove useless. The bartender (Andrew Tombes) has never seen her. Neither has the randy little drummer (Elisha Cook Jr.) who ogled her all evening. Neither has the Latin singer (Carmen Miranda's sister, Aurora), who threw a jealous tantrum because she and the Lady were wearing duplicate hats. Henderson is convicted of murder...
...Comets, an Aurora (Ill.) basketball team of 10-to 13-year-old boys, last week made basketballers' eyes pop. In a Y.M.C.A. tournament, they averaged a field goal every 27 seconds to smother another moppet five, the Fritzies, 106-to-1. Before experts could hail them as a wonder team of prodigies, the Comets next day plummeted to earth. Against another Y team of coevals, they lost...
Thoughts of Home. In Aurora, Ill., Mrs. Mildred Bugbee gratefully received a package of Old World treasures from her Navy husband in Italy: four pairs of rubber pants for the baby...
...with Nazi Puppet Pierre Laval, and anxious to set himself aright with anti-Nazi Frenchmen and the Allies. Finally, a Geneva newspaper published the text of the speech Pétain never made-a document purporting to promulgate a return to democratic government. At week's end, an aurora borealis of rumors flamed from Vichy, Berlin, Madrid, Berne, Stockholm, French Africa: Pétain had abdicated, he remained in office; he lay stricken with heart disease, he was in good health; he was under house-arrest in Vichy, he had conferred freely with Laval...
Said Alexander: "Fortunately the enemy did not know of our precarious position. In the Mediterranean we had three cruisers left. . . ." The three cruisers, screened by a few destroyers, bluffed Italy's fleet of 19 cruisers and six battleships, numerous destroyers and submarines. Two of the cruisers, the Aurora and Penelope, with the destroyers Lance and Lively, intercepted one Axis convoy of ten cargo ships and two destroyers and sank all twelve. British submarines, raiding the overwater supply line to Rommel in North Africa, sank 1,335,000 tons of Axis shipping. Malta, bombed and isolated, faced starvation, and between...