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...First Canadian Army fought for four weeks across the oozy Dutch polders, plodded relentlessly through knee-deep mud. Floods, pouring through demolished dikes, were so deep that often troops had to push through captured towns in amphibious vehicles. A British correspondent described the battleground as "the abomination of desolation." For days on end, he said, the troops had to stand waist deep in water. Canadian Pressman Alan Randal claimed that "conditions were the worst that the Western Front had seen in this war." He found two Canadian units that had been "fighting twelve nights and twelve days without rest...
...dreary, flat battleground, covered with scrub, relieved by occasional stands of trees around farm buildings, was raked by fire from end to end. Shattered trees, shattered buildings and the shattered corpses of Germans lay before the Canadians. At one time, part of the bridgehead across the 100-foot canal was only ten yards deep. Gradually, units from western Canada pushed forward, wet and bedraggled, until they had carved out an area more than five miles by three...
...music and literature were strung over the battleground. Sculptor Jo Davidson, engineering a Term IV musical show in Madison Square Garden, had to choose from a wealth of volunteers: Lily Pons, Duke Ellington, Yehudi Menuhin, Marian Anderson. Dinah Shore, Grace Moore, Gene Krupa. Anti-New Deal writers Ru pert Hughes, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kenneth Roberts, Louis Bromfield, Channing Pollock and Booth Tarkington plotted a Republican victory, and Dorothy Parker, in a big new pirate's hat, furiously attended Term IV luncheons...
Kesselring might make a pause in the Dolomites and along the Isonzo River (bloody battleground in World War I), where Italy is hinged to Yugoslavia. But these lines would be untenable if the Nazis in Yugoslavia collapsed behind...
...will send many more X-ray units into the field. Then he will turn over his pictures (and 85% of his $10,000,000 fund) to state health officers, who will carry on with treatment and control. Chief battleground will be the 92 biggest U.S. cities, whose T.B. death rate is a third higher than that of rural areas. Dr. Hilleboe's staff has recently discovered an amazing variation in T.B. incidence: San Antonio, the worst-rated city, has had ten times as many T.B. deaths (151 per 100,000) as Grand Rapids, which made the best showing. Negroes...