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...British Eighth and Afrika Korps faced each other as on a line of scrimmage. Montgomery had the ball. His right halfback (44th Division) started the play by faking to the left and drawing off the defense. His left half (50th Division) took a fake from the quarterback, then plunged through center. Meanwhile, the fullback (United Kingdom's armored division) had started to the left. Quickly he doubled back, took the ball from the quarterback (51st Highlanders) and sliced through the right side of his line, between the defensive left and tackle. His guard (9th Australians) blocked the defensive halfback...
When he arrived at Port Moresby on his 44th birthday last July, Ken Walker was a sight. In contrast to the bronzed, grimy pilots of his new command, breezy little General Walker was pale from his months in the Army War Plans Division at Washington. His huge sunglasses made him look like a long-nosed owl. Like most airmen in the Pacific, he wore shorts but, like no one the airmen had ever seen, he also wore leather riding boots...
Seven nights a week the dusky, barnlike basement of Manhattan's 44th Street Theater is crammed and crawling with pleasure-seekers. No liquor is served, but there is dancing to hot name bands, with pretty show girls and such movie stars as Bette Davis and Janet Gaynor waiting to be picked off as partners. On the walls are gay murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless...
Cause of the order was bantamweight Brigadier General James I. Muir, commander of the 44th Division. In the battle of the Carolinas, General Muir had to get his outfit across the dried-up Pee Dee River, where the only available bridge had been "destroyed" and he could not get his motorized equipment across the rocky river bed. His solution: an order to the custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats...
Oldsmobiles (called B-44s to mark the company's 44th anniversary) are lower & longer, with fadeaway front fenders. Long-needed innovation is twin front bumpers. One is in the usual place, the other a foot higher, sprouting from either fender to protect the flashy grille. Frames are heavier, have an added cross-member. Power has been increased through a higher compression ratio, redesigned combustion chambers...