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...enemy's main defenses they would be up against the same sort of grim battling that Lieut. General George S. Patton's bigger Third Army had run into when it reached German soil along the Saar River. There, last week, the Americans were slowed to a painful crawl by a torrent of steel. At one point the Germans hit back at the rate of 250 shells an hour. Devers' and Patton's adversary, General Hermann Balck, was fighting smartly with what...
...third year of active fighting. Some of the soldiers now patrolling in the heights of the Apennines had landed in North Africa Nov. 8, 1942. They had been blooded in the African campaign, tempered in the attack on Sicily, pounded into tough, battlewise, battle-weary veterans in the painful crawl up the Italian boot. As the third year began there was still the hard prospect of another winter on the bitter soil of Italy...
Road to Tokyo. Today hundreds of vessels-boats, warships,' cargo carriers, combat transports-crawl across the Manus lagoon, which is big enough to shelter all the navies of the world. A 300-ft. pier is constantly thronged with Navy personnel waiting water-taxi service to their ships. Trucks, jeeps, weapon carriers move from the docking area onto a three-lane road of coral rock, called "Victory Highway," which invades the hills...
...Great Fog displays Author Heard in both guises. As H.F. he makes the flesh creep; as Gerald in disguise he makes the conscience crawl. A few of the stories are straight mysteries and scientific thrillers, in which the principal elements are a woman's ear, a Siamese cat, a crayfish, a fog which covers the whole world. The other stories are trial balloons inflated by Gerald. They involve an eerie Gothic cathedral, with a mystic message for those who know how to find it ; an English spinster who is saved from suicide by tooth ache and theosophy; a couple...
...jounced by her movements. In cold weather he is almost smothered under several layers of clothing. Before the end of his first year he is forced to learn to sit stiffly on his haunches. Other restraints result from the flimsy construction of Japanese houses: when a baby begins to crawl, he is held back lest he butt through the paper walls or burn himself in the charcoal fire...