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Bradley Resumes. SHAEF censors passed a dispatch hinting that General Omar Bradley had resumed command of his northern armies (relinquished to Field Marshal Montgomery after the German breakthrough), and there was another hint in the fact that Bradley last week pinned a decoration on Lieut. General Courtney Hodges, the First Army's commander. But Bradley was in no shape to resume his November offensive on the Roer. The western front was once more a battle for time-on both sides. Supreme Commander Eisenhower had to rebuild his offensive platforms as quickly as possible. The Germans had to continue delaying...
Antibapfist. In San Juan Capistrano, Calif., the Coastline Dispatch ran an advertisement: "Notice. Positively no more baptizing in my pasture. Twice here in the last two months my gate has been left open by Christian people and before I chase my heifers all over the country again, all sinners can go to hell...
...William Henry Chickering, TIME war correspondent in the South Pacific, filed his last dispatch: "It is my hunch that [the Japs at Lingayen] won't react very favorably, may even retreat to the hills and make our initial success easy. . . ." His hunch was right, but he wasn't there to see for himself. On Jan. 6 he was killed by enemy air action in Lingayen Gulf. He was standing on the bridge of a warship; he and the British liaison officer, General Lumsden (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), were killed at the same moment...
...Navy Department announced last week the loss of three destroyers in a recent typhoon. From the western Pacific, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod had filed this delayed dispatch under date...
Last week the New York Times received a dispatch from one of its ace staff members, written from a Manhattan hospital bed. It came from thin, thoughtful Brooks Atkinson, who chucked 20 years of play reviewing to become a war correspondent. During his two years in China for the Times, he watched a hungry nation fight a lean war, saw men killed, and lost his own health. Since returning to the U.S. two months ago, he has been in & out of hospitals, recovering first from jaundice, then from an operation...