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Late in February a U.S. battalion in Italy made a gallant and determined stand against the Germans from a cave on the rocky road that runs north from Anzio. Cut off from supplies and fighting for a week without replacements, the battalion, in the words of New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart, "withstood the cruelest pressure any American unit has been called upon to face in this...
Correspondent Bigart singled out for special mention the work of 25-year-old Corporal George Sylvester Viereck Jr., who stood in the mouth of the cave blasting away with his Garand rifle at oncoming Nazis while an artillery barrage thundered down on them from the rear. Said Corporal Viereck: "We had a feeling of animal joy as that stuff came down on the surrounding Germans...
Twenty-odd years ago a good-looking young German named Walter Bauer got off a river boat at Asuncion, found a cave in the country, set up as a prophet. He told Paraguayan peasants when to marry or leave it alone. He predicted the future, made rain, found hidden treasure...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler: Overture "Fregal's Cave," Mendelssohn; Symphony No. VIII in F Major, Opus 93, Beethoven Symphonie Classique, Prokoviev...
...past two weeks. Coming directly from nearly 100 V-12 schools all over the country, these boys, after their commissioning as midshipmen on Tuesday, will have had less indoctrination in Navy procedure than any previous midshipman class. Perhaps a general dissemination of the old Pearson, Bruns, and Cave principles, coupled with the case system and report dead lines, will show them "Navy" Harvard style. . . . As A. Graham meets his wife Saturday he will be breaking his "not 'till June resolution." Naturally his declaration, "not for the duration" is equally doomed . . . It's good to learn that "Holy" has found "nothing...