[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from yesterday.

Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of September 30, 1944

#1 - “Swinging on a Star” – Bing Crosby
#2 - “I’ll Walk Alone” – Dinah Shore
#3 - “You Always Hurt the One You Love” – Mills Brothers
#4 – “It Had to Be You” - Dick Haymes/Helen Forrest
#5 - “It Had to Be You” – Betty Hutton
#6– “I’ll Walk Alone” – Martha Tilton
#7 – “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby)” – Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#8 – “Till Then” – Mills Brothers
#9 - “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby” – Louis Jordan
#10 - “It Could Happen to You” – Jo Stafford

[Tax-chick]

Page 9, “Mountbatten in London For Parleys on Pacific.”

I wonder how much influence Mountbatten had on the further conduct of the Pacific War, or whether, at this point, the British were thinking mainly of the extent to which their Empire in Asia could be preserved.

[PapaNew]

Anybody believe Stalin’s doctor’s report? Seems more like trying to get as much leverage as he can by meeting on his home turf.