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...Musical Knowledge"; and Georgia Ann ("Gorgeous Georgia") Carroll, 24, onetime highest-paid Powers model ("The Chesterfield Girl"), now Kyser's sweet-voiced vocalist; both for the first time; in Las Vegas, Nev. Died. Josef Beck, 49, Poland's unpopular, unscrupulous, prewar Foreign Minister; after long illness; near Bucharest. A protÉgÉ of Dictator-Marshal Josef Pilsudski, who made him Foreign Minister (at 38, the youngest in Europe), "Little Joe" soon made a reputation for himself as one of Europe's most ruthless diplomats. Pro-German and anti-Russian, he smoothly signed ten-year nonaggression pacts...
...which had dried out two months ago in the south, was now fit for large-scale operations all the way to the Baltic. In the south, Marshal Konev's armies had a fully coiled spring aimed toward the Galati gap which leads on to the Rumanian plain, to Bucharest and the oil of Ploesti...
...could well toss their red-starred caps into the air and cheer for the white-starred bombers of Major General Nathan F. ("Nate") Twining's Fifteenth U.S. Air Force. The far-ranging Fortresses and Liberators were hitting within a wide arc all the way from Vienna down to Bucharest, and Nazi targets in occupied Yugoslavia were catching their share...
...continuing assault upon Germany's air power, the Fifteenth sent more than 500 bombers to hit three Messerschmitt aircraft plants near Vienna. Three days later it launched another fleet of nearly 1,000 bombers and fighters, this time to throw a double punch at Nazi communications in Bucharest and Ploesti. This week the heavy bombers carried on with a smash at airdromes and railyards in Belgrade and Sofia, and struck at the Rumanian industrial city of Brasov, barely 100 miles from the Red Army front in Rumania. The Fifteenth was actually fighting in support of the Russian advance...
...their first invasion of Axis soil, the Russians forced the river crossing at several points and advanced along a 165-mile front. One column was reported within 200 miles of Bucharest and the valuable Ploesti oilfields. Moscow newspapers proudly printed dispatches datelined "Across the Border," although Moscow already had disavowed any plans of conquest...