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...about has been an increasing justification for my doing so regularly in a paper which reviews plays, books, and movies only casually and occasionally runs something about classical music. If there is enough interest shown next fall to warrant continuing the "Swing" column when the Crimson returns to a five-day week, a competition will be run, and I know there are some well-jazzed editors who will be around to pick the winner...
Farther south the German pockets held. So did the Russian spearheads, thrust deep into the German lines. Near Kalinin, northwest of Moscow, the Russians announced that they had finally beaten off a fierce five-day counterattack by crack German troops, had killed 2,400, knocked out 25 tanks...
...Tuttles of Tahiti (RKO Radio) are an exceptionally lazy family. Trying to get them to work is like trying to interest a six-day bicycle racer in a five-day week. Their laziness is encouraged by the man from whom they inherited it: their improvident, prolific, lovable father Jonas (Charles Laughton), South Seas remnant of the Massachusetts Tuttles...
Most lead mines, although Bill Knudsen two months ago asked them to lift output (TIME, Nov. 17), are still on a five-day week-and their output is running at least 20% below...
...shipyards are scheduled to launch 20 ships in December, 75 in the first quarter of 1942, 324 in the rest of the year. For want of labor some shipyards are still on a five-day, one-or-two shift basis. If the labor can be found, they probably will not long remain so. But when the ships are built crews will still be needed to man them-and the U.S. is short of sailors...