Word: alberts
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Upton Sinclair, 65, vegetarian, moralist, Socialist, muckraker, politician, agnostic, Californian, abstainer, feminist, movie producer, violinist, physical culturist, antiFascist, antiCommunist; friend of Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein; one of the most prolific U.S. authors (67 books, 500 pamphlets); prohibitionist son of a bibulous father and twice-married critic of American marital habits, last week gave book-length vent to his latest enthusiasm: Franklin Roosevelt...
Pattern of Defeat. Technically, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's Tenth and Fourteenth Armies were still in one piece. But they had been fearfully cut up. Since the drive began on May 11 they had had around 60,000 casualties; more than 20,000 had been captured; at least five of their 18 divisions had ceased to function...
...Tennessee's tall, boyish Congressman Albert Gore offered a quip, carefully attributing it to a hillbilly constituent: "It's never a good idea to change horses in the middle of a stream. But if I ever come to that pass where I've got to consider doing it, I will sure draw the line at changing to a Shetland pony...
...sore straits, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring brought down from the north the once-famed Hermann Goring Division, which had been wiped out in Tunisia and since reconstituted. Another reinforcement was an infantry division which had been fighting Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans at Istria. Prisoners from one regiment of reinforcements told Allied intelligence officers that half their motor transport and personnel had been destroyed on the way to the front by Allied air action, and that the remainder were decimated, as soon as they took up their line positions, by Allied tank attacks...
...Albert Einstein, corona-haired saint of science who became a U.S. citizen in 1940 and casts his first presidential vote next November, plumped for a Fourth Term: "There is no doubt that in the present international situation it is very dangerous to change leadership...