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...schedule they might be, but MacArthur's troops were still on the track, still rolling in the right direction. Last week on Leyte fresh infantrymen of the 32nd ("Red Arrow") Division (see ARMY & NAVY) cracked the Japanese strong point at Limon, took the town and neatly pulled the plug at the top of the north-south road along which last-ditch Japanese defenders are strung all the way down to Ormoc...
Over the River. Plunging on with the momentum of their winning drive, the men of the 32nd pushed 1,000 yards south of Limon, took the enemy by surprise and forced the crossing of the Leyte River, seizing a bridge on the road. But the Japanese were not panicked. The Imperial 26th Division struck back in a vicious counterattack, U.S. troops halted the attack, but their own push was slowed to a walk...
...three-star generals in Marine Corps history. The others: ex-Commandant (now Minister to South Africa) Thomas Holcomb, and present Commandant Alexander Archer Vandegrift. * At least three other Army divisions in the Pacific have had their commanders relieved in mid-battle: the 32nd (Buna), the 7th (Attu), the 43rd (New Georgia-the latter two by admirals...
...Andrews Sisters, bawling, hoydenish Queens of the Juke Box, gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life. At their present drawing power, the gift amounts to over $100,000 a year. Their first hit in 1937 (Bel Mir Bist Du Schon) sold over 125,000 records; they now get $100,000 annual royalty from Decca for their discs, $10,000 a week average for personal appearances...
Last week Russia celebrated Press Day, 32nd anniversary of the birth of the Soviet press in the revolutionary underground. Florid editorials proclaimed the press's role anew. Writers, editors, correspondents got official awards...