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...optimism that bubbled up in the U.S. with the crossing of the Rhine barrier was tempered by caution this time. The U.S. was through with such bumptious assumptions as it had made after General Patton's dash past Paris last summer. "A Feeling of Coming Victory," said the Chicago Sun's streamer. But this time it was not entirely the caution of earlier disappointment that kept down the premature cheering. It was also a more intimate realization of what the end of the war in Europe would mean...
This week the Japanese defending Mandalay suddenly found themselves in the middle of a semicircle. General Slim had sprung tanks and airborne troops in a swift 85-mile dash from one bridgehead into Meiktila (70 miles south of Mandalay), to seize eight Jap airfields. There and on the way there the British killed 1,600 Japs. With one punch they had severed the enemy's land and water links from Rangoon to Mandalay, and had virtually cut off the main forces defending Burma. The next move was up to the Japs -if they could make...
...representative group of Manhattan song pluggers gathers daily in the Gateway Restaurant, a minute's dash from NBC's Radio City studios. Here they compare their own and their rivals' successes in a radio log which lists all network song performances of the night before. After dinner, they catnap in a newsreel theater until the nightspots open. The pluggers spend an hour or so in each of the most popular spots, strategically seated at tables where they can vie with a dozen competitors for the eye and ear of influential bandleaders...
Alan Ford finishes his mechanical engineering studies at Yale this week, begins an intensive midshipman course next month. After 16 years of painstaking practice, he is pretty well fed up with swimming. Said he before his final record-breaking dash: "My mind is on other things. I got engaged last week. I want to get my Navy commission. I would like to find a nice quiet spot and drink lots of beer...
Captain Mike Keene, playing with an injured back, netted eight points in the first 11 minutes, giving the Crimson a 16 to 10 margin, before he was rested by Stahl. Without Keene, the quintet seemed to lose its dash and its collective shooting-eye, and Melville overhauled the Crimson, emerging with a half-time lead...