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Charlie Barnet is scheduled to do six twelve inch sides on Otto Cesana's "Symphony in Swing"--the longest jazz yet recorded . . . Bob Crosby's band gets some punch it has long needed with Doc Rando going in at third sax and Hank D'Amico going in shortly at lead. This will give the band three great clarinetists: D'Amico in the New York style and Rando and Fazola in the New Orleans style . . . Eddla Durham is starting a band--big news since he was responsible for much of the Lunceford-Basie-Savit success...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

...little Dutch boy who saved his country by plugging the dike with his fist was missing last week. His duty this time would have been to blow up the Moerdijk Bridge, longest on the Continent, connecting Rotterdam and the heart of The Netherlands with south Holland across the 1∧ mile wide Hollandsch Diep (joint estuary of the Maas and Waal Rivers). A gallon of well placed nitroglycerin would at least have delayed the German armored column which, having raced 85 miles westward in less than 86 hours (TIME, May 20), clanked across to reinforce Nazi parachute and air ferried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Fall of The Netherlands | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Blue & Yellow Danube. At Donaue-schingen in the Black Forest three small Alpine streams come together to form Europe's second longest river (the Volga is longer), which flows 1,750 miles across central and southeastern Europe to pour its waters into the Black Sea north of Constantsa. The Danube drains 320,200 square miles, has 300 tributaries; with the Rhine and the canal joining the two (now being improved at a cost of $300,000,000) it forms a waterway across Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Valley of Conquest | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...tremendous volume of participants in rowing is handled by Weld efficiently because of strict limitations on the time for which a boat may be used; 45 minutes is the longest. By enforcing several simple rules, the coaches are able to avoid accidents and collisions with eight-oar crews and with the other individual boats to a great extent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Single Scullers Throng Charles As Season Opens | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

...consecutive paying audiences, no fewer than 860,013 people had given 35 to 75? to get in and watch a freestyle, catch-as-catch-can radio show on a stage representing a hayloft. Station WLS's Barn Dance is a corny five-hour jamboree, radio's longest* and oldest in continuous operation, tops in Crossley ratings in its class. Last week this program, begun a week after Station WLS first took to the air and its mainstay ever since, celebrated its 16th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Howdy, Evvabuddy | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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