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Fatal Gap. Smith v. Smith became Smith v. the 27th (and, finally, the Army as a whole). Twelve days after Ralph Smith was replaced, two of the 27th's battalion commanders settled down for the night without bothering to cover a 300-yard gap between their flanks. Though forewarned, the ailing regimental commander never bothered to check up on his front lines. Through that gap the Japs rammed their last, desperate banzai charge...
Basic training, O.C.S., Fort Gelvore, all denoted portions of McCabe's military life. In July, 1944, he was shipped to the ETO where he worked on the Red Ball Express and in an engineering combat battalion with the Ninth Army. V-E day found him on the west bank of the Elbe...
Marriage Revealed. Allan S. Lehman, 63, banker and nephew of New York's onetime Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Ann Roche Marshall, 45, fire battalion chief's daughter and Lehman's longtime friend; each for the second time; in Manhattan, one day after his divorce (after 36 years) from Evelyn Schiffer Lehman, to whom he paid a reported $3,500,000 settlement...
...west, last week an Indian officer showed TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar a map on which numbers of regular Pakistan units were labeled in. Lubar asked what was the source of his information. "Partly from prisoners," he answered. "Also they drop over and see us sometimes. The Pakistan battalion commander here and the Indian battalion commander here are both former platoon commanders of mine...
Like many left-wingers, Laski has taken varying attitudes toward the U.S.S.R., ranging from piously articulate fellow-traveling to skeptical hostility (his Secret Battalion, published in 1946, was a blistering attack on the British Communist Party). But he has never for a moment lost his faith in the idea of a planned society nor his energy in tub-thumping for one. Much of his writing, like many of his public utterances, has been neat propaganda, smartly concocted and adroitly delivered. But periodically he has written studies in which his intelligence and historical erudition have loomed much larger than his slicker...