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...Tunisia the fighting was at a virtual stalemate. Across the waist, U.S. troops had advanced to a point 40 miles from Gabés, Tunisia's southernmost port. The advance was a threat to Axis strategy. If the Allies reached Gabés, thus cutting the Axis corridor, they might succeed in stopping the juncture of Nehring and Rommel...
...short corridor and another door leads the visitor suddenly out into the great system of food tunnels. Heavy foods like roasts and great quantities of vegetables are prepared in the large kitchen and trundled through the tunnels in covered cars which have been electrically preheated. Light foods and breakfasts are prepared in the serving kitchens of each House. Since the distance from Kirkland to the farthest dining hall, Leverett, is 1800 feet, provisions have been made so that Leverett alone of the five Houses can be made self-sufficient in preparation of food...
...Down the corridor the Admiral's orderly had just turned into his room. At the sound of the shots he whirled, rushed back to meet the assassin running toward him. At point-blank range the assassin fired twice again. The orderly fell, a bullet in his thigh. But others had arrived; the gunman was overpowered...
...gunner seemed to get the bead on our bombing run as we skimmed low. The tracers' red, blazing prongs of light flashed by our windows. I was up in the nose with the squadron bombardier, Lieut. George Stout, and it seemed as if we were darting through a corridor of flaming sheaves...
...years of age and 10,000 subscribers is not a record in magazine publishing. But those two facts last week spelled out the relatively permanent arrival of another journal of opinion. In the corridor of intellectualistic protest where the New Republic and the Nation have long stalked, Common Sense now also strolls...