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...Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, it was a time of anguish. He must get the 1st and 9th Submarine Flotillas away from Brest, the 2nd and 10th from Lorient, the 6th and 7th from St. Nazaire. But where could he send them? The only other Biscay bases were La Pallice and Bordeaux, each with facilities for only one flotilla, which already crowded the pens. Farther north were Bergen and Trondheim, with berths for a single flotilla apiece. But the Allied navies patrolled the Atlantic looking for U-boats on the escape routes and the Mediterranean was an Allied lake, closed...
...Church at Burlington, Vt., a gleaming structure of glass blocks and red brick produced by local architects who were chosen because they had never designed a Catholic church before, is strictly 20th Century. But it has one primitive feature that has rarely been seen in Christian churches since the 9th Century. Its altar is set in the center of the church (see cut), so that the face and hands of the priest offering Mass are visible to his congregation from three sides. The altar of the new cathedral to be built in Britain's bombed-out Coventry after...
...grimacing skull is the capitalist king. The rugged collective farmer is a communist pawn. The aproned worker is a communist king. Last week this chess set and over 30 others went on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Many of the pieces, some dating from the 9th Century, were exquisite miniature sculptures in ivory, silver, fine woods. Most of the Metropolitan's chess show was lent by Chess Collector Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, co-author of Chessmen...
...9th Division: Major General Manton S. Eddy, 52, 6 ft. 2, 210 lbs.; a stickler for detail and physical conditioning, who used to run his officers daily over a five-mile course in Africa to keep them in trim...
...Battalion of one of the 9th's regiments stormed Fort Equeurdreville, a citadel like a buried warship at the extreme left (west) of the line. In the center Major General Ira Wyche's 79th Division smashed successive layers of Fort du Roule; on the right Major General Raymond O. Barton's 4th Division drove to the waterfront...