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...apparently planned to be in Moscow early in the autumn, firmly entrenched before winter set in. He had relied on an attack of paralyzing speed-an aerially supported striking force of first four, then five, large Panzer Armies, followed by supporting infantry forces of Axis and Axis-allied troops...
Since KFEL's smart owner, Gene O'Fallon, started Beverly off last autumn she has been setting her own alarm clock for 4:20. Reaching the studio by 5, she whiffles through her fan mail, sets up the morning's request numbers, grabs a bottle of coke. Current favorite among her recordings: Doin' a War Dance Down at the Cuckoo House, by Rudy Sooter and his Californians...
Furthermore the butter, so golden and freshly churned, was by autumn melting off the arms boom. For the first time in 24 years, the Land of Plenty confronted shortages...
...spot at which the Allies got the jump on the Japanese was Timor. This half-Dutch, half-Portuguese island, lying between the Dutch East Indies and Australia (only 410 miles from Darwin), has long been eyed by the Japanese. This autumn they acquired the right from the Portuguese to fly a commercial airline there. Dutch and Australian troops marched into Portuguese Timor last week over the protest of local Portuguese authorities. But even this little triumph was fraught with political hazards which might eventually offset the military advantage...
...agreed then," Murrow says, "that in reporting the death of a civilization it would be impossible to under-dramatize." Once a bigshot in campus theatricals at Washington State College, Ed Murrow recognized that for listeners already gorged on emotional appeals nothing could be so dramatic as restraint. Last autumn's and winter's bombing tested that theory...