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...Patient, blunt-featured Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov had waited. Now his northern flank was anchored on the sea, his southern flank secure. The time was at hand to resume the westward march-to Berlin, the north German plains, an eventual linking with Russia's allies...
...annual report for 1944, the Atlas president, blunt, hard-boiled Sherman Hoar Bowles (cousin of OPAdministrator Chester Bowles), told the stockholders: "The roof of the Fairhaven plant has so many leaks you can't count them all, and the floor is falling in all over the building. The sides of two of the boilers are caving in. The machinery is mostly very old and something falls in pieces almost every...
...blunt-spoken man who knows the Far East well, Tommy Hart gave up his fleet command in February 1942. Since then he has been living at his Sharon (Conn.) dairy farm, commuting to Washington for sessions of the Navy General Board. Last year he gathered evidence on the Pearl Harbor disaster for the Secretary of the Navy. A classmate of Admiral Leahy's at Annapolis (1897), a friend of Franklin Roosevelt's, Tommy Hart would be the first top-rank officer of World War II to go to Congress...
...paintings, hung side by side, made a striking contrast. British portraiture, leaning heavily on plumes, misty laces and shimmering silks, set out to romanticize the subject and present him in a softly flattering light as a person of distinction. The American who sat for his portrait often got a blunt, matter-of-fact estimate of his character from a social equal...
...with a "second front" in Poland. Quick as an echo last week came the reply of Russia's own army journal, Red Star: such talk bears "the Goebbels trademark." Izvestia chimed in: "Small-caliber strategists. . . ." Russia's mighty Pravda (circulation: 2,000,000) had already paid its blunt respects: "This journal looks ugly...