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Hawkins' recording is much rougher than Miller's, doesn't have nearly the originality or ideas that the Miller version does, but is better than it for one reason: it has more life and push. It's the old story of a bad colored band usually being better than a good white one when it comes to playing that thing called swing. No matter how out of tune they may be, or how inferior their phrasing, the colored boys have an inate relaxation that while bands can rehearse for twenty years and never...
Same day the Turkish press rang with accusations that Germany was trying to push Russia into offensive action in southeastern Europe. Discussing Russia's building of fortifications in the Caucasus, on the other side of the Russo-Turkish frontier, Istanbul's Ikdam warned: "War between the Soviets and the British-French Allies might lead to exhaustion of the belligerents. Then Germany could open an offensive on her tired enemies and impose her peace-with Russia paying the bill...
Warren Winslow put the Hoddermen back in the game, combining with Gordy McGrath and Skip Ervin at 16:40 to push the puck past Pentland in the Toronto nets. After that, however, the Crimson stickmen were simply no match for the lightning-fast Blues and struggled desperately to give harassed goalie Vint Freedley what little protection they could...
...encounter will be the 50 and 100 yard dashes where George Wiley, Middie Sophomore speedster, will meet an up-and-coming Jim Curwon, Lonnie Stowell, or Dave Stearns. Captain Rick Cutler should not have much trouble in scoring a double in the 220 and 440, but Jim Conger may push Frannie Powers a bit in both events...
...with the bombings came the firehose attacks, stubborn onslaughts that were wasteful of men and materials alike. From Petsamo in the far north (where the Russians tried and failed to push on to Hoyhenjarvi) down through the Salla and Suomussalmi sectors (where the Finns stopped them before they got going) and the new front at Kuhmo (where the Finns beat them back with heavy losses) to the shores of Lake Laatokka and the Karelian Isthmus, the Russians attacked simultaneously. The Finns were in their tightest spot since the war began...