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North of the Arctic Circle the winter-bitten Germans coiled sluggishly to strike. Russian intelligence learned from prisoners and from their own aviators that the Nazis were preparing an offensive against Murmansk, on the Barents Sea end of one tube through which Britain and the U.S. feed supplies to Russia...
Stilwell's Business. There was one bright note: the cocky optimism of Lieut.-General Joseph W. Stilwell, hard-bitten, Chinese-speaking U.S. officer sent by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to command Chinese reinforcements in Burma (TIME, March 23). Last week Washington disclosed that General Stilwell was also in command of all U.S. forces in Burma, China and India. Stilwell believes in getting close to his men; he was already referring to the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma as "my armies." Those ragged, clean and tough young fighters chewed up a band of 300 queasy Thai troops near...
...necklace. She was more terrified than ever when she discovered that it was a deadly coral snake. At last she conquered her fear by learning to pick up live rattlers with a forked tube. Since Cross Creek was written, the man who showed her how has since been bitten twice by moccasins, once by a rattler. Mrs. Rawlings' herpetological heroism reached the point where she killed a moccasin in her bathroom with a Sears Roebuck catalogue...
...deep lines around Franklin Roosevelt's mouth had bitten deeper; his hair was thinner, turning from grey to white. But the powerful shoulders, the vitality of a big man, the zest for a good, tension-snapping belly laugh, were as big as ever...
...with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. In 1854 that determined British spinster took a handful of nurses to Scutari, cleaned up the filthy, stinking, overcrowded hospitals, organized a system of sanitary supplies, bathed, clothed and fed the thousands of victims of typhoid, cholera, dysentery. Bitterly opposed by hard-bitten generals, she pulled down the hospital death rate from diseases from 315 to 22 per 1,000. After the war, she persuaded the British Government to set up the world's first school of military medicine, organize sanitary rules, military hospitals. Said she: "You cannot improvise the sanitary care...