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...Jimmy-prestige, front-row seats, wads of bills to bet at the races, comfortable bank accounts in his wife's name. He controlled judges and cops. His friends ranged from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, the "numbers" king. The vote was his bludgeon and his armor; when Prosecutor Tom Dewey came belling toward him up a trail of racket-busting evidence, Jimmy was unruffled...
...west, Allied armor and speeding infantry slashed in dazzling parabolas toward the last of the defenses beofe the Siegfried Line. The battle of France was decided. As it thrudered toward its end the battle of Germany was beginning...
...week began, it had been question how soon Lieut. General Omar Bradley's speeding Twelfh Army Group could liberate Paris. When Paris all but liberated itself, the question was whether U.S. armor might strike for Reims. At the turn of the week, the Nazis reported U.S. army in Reims and U.S. Flyers reported the Nazia in full, disorganized flight to the Rhine. Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army had been liquidated. His Fifteenth, already bled by its attmep to rescue the Seventh, was outflanked in its positions on the rocket Coast. The first question...
...which had swung in behind the enemy to form the pockets against the Seine where Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's main force had met disaster. To set up that kill, calm, roly-poly General Haislip had managed another impossibility for Patton; he had driven his armor down from Normandy, across to LeMans, up to Alengon -300 miles-in twelve days. Haislip's corps had been the first of Patton's daggers to strike deep. Now Haislip could exploit the retreat he had helped to create...
Meanwhile the Red armies had been stalled on the Warsaw approaches by fierce assaults of German armor. The Polish rebels had vainly tried to prevent four Panzer divisions from getting through to the east for this fight. The Russians were forced to evacuate Ossow, a town seven miles from the Warsaw suburb of Praga-the first time they had lost a town since their summer offensive started. At week's end the Nazis were still able to mount 20 attacks...