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Brazil was the scene of a commercial air battle. Germany's Condor Airline already covers the Brazilian coast, throws a big loop into the up-country jungles. As Brazil called for bids for another inland airline, Condor prepared to bid for it against U.S.-owned Panair do Brasil, meanwhile ran its plane over the route, carrying a steady trickle of German "tourists" inland...
...cycle this week, and in Chicago. Some of the pioneer Chicago jazzmen whom reverent connoisseurs know as the "Austin High School Gang"-although few of them actually went there to school-assembled in their native city for the first time in many a year, to play in a minuscule Loop joint, the Brass Rail...
...Germans cannot be counted on to make mistakes such as the Italians made fighting against the Greeks, the Yugoslavs may do brilliantly and still be beaten. The Germans ought to be able to overrun northwestern Yugoslavia coming down in a drive that will outflank and take the great Yugoslavian loop of the Danube Drives were to be expected down the river itself from Mohacs and Subotica in Hungary, and perhaps also from Rumania through the Iron Gate, or from Bulgaria driving towards Nish from Sofia...
...Hearstpapers). Carson at that time was day city editor of the Chicago Tribune, under Editor Captain Joe Patterson. Howey wanted him for the Herald & Examiner. When Carson refused to come over Howey plotted with a mutual actor friend to put knockout drops in Carson's drink at a Loop bar. Then he took the doped editor home, guided his inert hand through a Tribune resignation and a Herald & Examiner contract. Carson honored the contract...
...sabotage behind the enemy's lines. One cute little trick to decapitate an enemy was learned by Greene while he was visiting Asterloo, Cheese cutters in England are sharp wires with handles at each end. The Guardsman holds both handles in his right hand, slips the wire loop over a German's head from behind, holds his left hand against the enemy's head, and pulls. The wire passes through a man's neck with the same fluid case as through cheese...