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Punishing weather in Italy had lightened a little, permitted the British Eighth Army, struggling northwest from Rimini toward Bologna, to batter the Germans out of their trenches and from behind rivers and canals. Then, as troops captured Forli and stalled again before German defense lines, a fall of unseasonable snow dropped a white curtain over the advance...
Johnson starts his story like a batter lazily warming up. Professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson), a humdrum family man, stops on the way to his club to gaze at a glamorous portrait in a gallery window. When the portrait's model (Joan Bennett) turns up and they fall into conversation, the professor feels he is on the brink of adventure. Throwing caution to the winds, he goes to her apartment-quite literally to look at etchings. But when the girl's lover bursts in and attacks him, Wanley in self-defense stabs him to death with a pair...
When the decision was made to bypass Mindanao and land on Leyte (as a result of the Navy's success in using carrier-borne air power to batter down Jap land-based air power), the guerrillas were alerted. Commando parties were sent by MacArthur's Sixth Army commander, German-born, 63-year-old Lieut. General Walter Krueger, to gather information and to destroy a few key Jap posts...
...that would not float (TIME, Oct. 2). Last week the baffled research staff performed a thorough autopsy on the sullen bar, came up from its powdered remains still baffled but with a lathery explanation: "Floating soap floats because it has been whipped about like a cake batter. In storage, this particular bar might have been com pressed and its tiny air pockets crushed...
Scorcher. In St. Louis, Clarence Brown Jr. was hospitalized and treated for burns after being hit by a line drive in a sand-lot baseball game. The batter had scored a bulls-eye on a pocketful of stick matches...