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Local Penetrations. Back at his Biltmore suite for a scheduled rest, he spent most of his time telephoning or greeting callers who came in unannounced. At 4, he was at the Los Angeles Athletic Club amidst a milling crowd of some 200 in the low-ceilinged assembly room. They were leaders in local affairs from such poles apart as reactionary old ex-Governor Merriam and liberal New Dealing John Anson Ford of the County Board of Supervisors. (One well-meaning lawyer whispered to Willkie not to shake hands with Ford: "He's a radical." Willkie and Ford shook nevertheless...
This went over big with the crowd and Willkie again walked from a meeting amidst resounding applause. Here, as elsewhere, he seemed to have convinced his auditors that he was a good Republican Party man and a logical foe for Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Soon they were halfway to the target, bumping through rough air over the Mediterranean. Some of the men got sick. The men knew that they, a handful only, must plant a cancer amidst the enemy and make it grow. They knew this even before the colonel spoke: "Well, boys, we are truly the first men of America tonight. We will be the first to land in Axis Europe. For hours & hours we will be alone. There will be enemies all around us and over our heads. We must do our best." Then, offhandedly, he added: "We are headed for Sicily...
...Owchihkow the Japanese garrison was entrenched behind five concentric rings of pillboxes. Last week the Chinese decided to drive the enemy from these last strongholds. But instead of columns of Japanese infantry moving along unprotected footpaths amidst rice paddies, they faced the superiority of Japanese weapons. The Chinese infantry filtered in through the pillboxes to Owchihkow and fought in the city's streets. But Japanese artillery based on an island in the river pounded them brutally, while fresh Japanese reinforcements made way to aid the garrison. At week's end the Japanese artillery and pillboxes dominated the action...
...gambler out of work. His old colleague Joe Rocco (Cesar Romero) has done better: he owns the fanciest joint in Coney and employs Kate Farley (Betty Grable) as his star entertainer. Johnson sets up a rival establishment and starts stealing Rocco's talent as well as his business. Amidst the chicanery and the fisticuffing, Miss Grable shapes a fine career for herself on Broadway and in the arms of the man who was down but never out. She has always had a gift for looking well in the fewest possible clothes; she looks even better in the rococco upholsteries...