[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of February 27, 1943

#1 - “There Are Such Things” - Tommy Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers
#2 - “I’ve Heard That Song Before” – Harry James, with Helen Forrest
#3 - “I Had the Craziest Dream” - Harry James, with Helen Forrest
#4 - “Moonlight Becomes You” - Bing Crosby
#5 – “You’d be So Nice to Come Home To” - Dinah Shore
#6 – “Brazil” - Xavier Cugat
#7 – “It Started All Over Again” - Tommy Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra, Pied Pipers
#8 - “Why Don’t You Do Right” - Benny Goodman, with Peggy Lee
#9 - “Moonlight Becomes You” - Glenn Miller, with Skip Nelson and the Modernaires
#10 – “Why Don’t You Fall in Love with Me,” Dinah Shore

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Allies Pursue Foe (Middleton) – 2-3
Two Major Lessons Found in Survey of Tunisian Battle (Kluckhohn) – 3-4
War News Summarized – 4
Reich Base Seared – 5
Reporters Fly on U.S. Raid; Call Reich Attack ‘Efficient’ (by Gladwin Hill, first-time contributor, Cronkite) * – 6
‘Rough’ the Word for Bombers’ Job – 7
Gandhi is Cheerful on 17th Day; He Believes God Keeps Him Alive – 7
Russians Enlarge Wedges in Ukraine – 8
Soviet Seen Firm for Gain Since ’39 (Callender) – 8-9
Our Envoy Reports Big Oil Aid to Spain – 9
Yemen is Reported Seizing Axis Nationals; Arab Ruler Silences Pro-Nazi Broadcasts – 9
Hints of Vatican Mediation Persist; Ciano to Talk with Pope Today – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-13
Mission Completed Marines Take Leave of Guadalcanal (photo) – 13

* Some of our ships went down.

One of those downed ships was carrying Times London correspondent Robert P. Post.