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Before Budapest's fate was sealed, the month and a half battle for it had also become the battle for the Kisalföld, the triangular "Little Plain" of western Hungary, with Vienna, in Austria, as its apex. By this week the Russians had won a series of battles for the Kisalföld's approaches, stood upon it on both sides of the Danube. Vienna, the inner gate to Germany's back door, was now the German worry...
Cornerward. The Germans were now direly threatened in a vital strategic triangle: its base, the line across Brittany; its sides, the Seine and the Loire; its apex-Paris...
...musician after another on the 15 mile pilgrimage to the Vinal hozze in South Weymouth. On a home records waxings were made of Charley jammings with Josh White, Frank Newton, J. Jones, Basie, and the Crosby band to mention only a few. With one musical climax following another, the apex of Charley's career may be said to have occurred this past summer when, under the guiding hand of George Avakian, he gathered together his own Dixieland Band which was featured at Harvard Jazz Club sessions and early opened at a Boston night club...
...from his strategic air and naval base at Rabaul, apex of a triangle, the Jap looked down anxiously on Munda. Its coral airfield had been repaired and was in operation as a fighter base. It was being used already against Rabaul's outpost, Bougainville, which the U.S. might conceivably by-pass as it had Kolombangara...
...looked down anxiously on Salamaua. With the capture of Salamaua' the apex would become really hot, within a 500-mile radius of U.S.-held corners of the triangle, within range of U.S. bombers and fighter escorts...