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...Germans were using the famed 1,400-year-old Benedictine abbey as an artillery-observation post. This seemed well established, as hundreds of young Americans died on the slope below. Collier's War Correspondent Frank Gevasi reported: "I saw 800 [Americans] go out and 24 come back, because the Germans could see every move and turn their fire on them." And the Germans, after noting heavy, bloody U.S. losses, laconically reported in a communiqué that Indian Gurkha troops had replaced "the worn-out Americans...
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan last week told Collier's readers "Why I Am for MacArthur." He wrote: MacArthur "is granite in the face of duty . . . a composite of all our necessities. . . . [Mr. Roosevelt] intends to run primarily as our commander in chief. . . . Should we not offer the people a better commander in chief...
Died. William Collier, 77, veteran actor and playwright; of pneumonia; in Beverly Hills, Calif. His best-known roles, in 35 years, were in Hoss and Hoss, Nothing But the Truth, The Patriot...
...rationing program. He set out with no ration coupons at all, and made a 2,000-mile border-to-border auto trip (Brownsville, Tex. to International Falls, Minn.). He used 123 gallons of bootlegged gas, bought extra ration coupons for 190 gallons besides. In the Oct. 2 issue of Collier's he told the whole tale...
This week the Archbishop's Collier's articles appeared in book form (Action This Day; Scribner; $2.75). His former opinions of Franco have been somewhat edited, are now attributed to hearsay: "I had been told by some who had known him all through his life that the Generalissimo was a Godfearing, serious and intelligent man, striving to do what he thought was best for Spain...