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...This time the Allies have only about 25,000,000 tons afloat, but the world is their battlefield. Vast stores of fuel oil, rubber and other riches once available are in the hands of the enemy. So are the resources and shipping of Scandinavia, and, for practical purposes, of Spain" [TIME, June...
...Sisters (Warner) are a very unhappy trio of prospective million-heiresses: Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Nancy Coleman. Their mother went down with the Lusitania. Their father died on a World War I battlefield. They have passed the best part of 23 years in court trying to get a clear title to the half-billion dollars fate and father left them. The Gay Sisters chronicles this courtroom crisis straight through to the final gavel...
...Heroic battlefield surgery during the Japanese invasion of Burma (TIME, April 13, 20; July 20) earned Burma-born Major Gordon S. Seagrave, onetime medical missionary with the American Baptist Mission, the Order of the Purple Heart (originated by George Washington...
...possible that the recent variations in German tactics have been merely a change of pace, perhaps partly caused by the desire to husband tanks. Considering the size of the battlefield and the size of the Russian armies-and the tendency shown in every previous campaign in World War II for General Halder to lay plans on a grand scale-the Nazi plan for 1942 may well call for break-throughs and encirclements on a huge scale...
...Quickest, simplest, safest method of amputation on the battlefield, said Colonel Norman Thomas Kirk of the U.S. Army, is the circular or "flapless guillotine" operation. "The word 'guillotine,'" said Colonel Kirk, "is a misnomer. The circular guillotine amputation is not a 'chop' operation." It consists of cutting around the skin of the limb, waiting a moment for it to draw back, then cutting around the connective tissue, waiting again for withdrawal, cutting through the muscles circularly, and finally sawing the bone. The old practice of covering the bone with flaps of skin has been abandoned...