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...Florence as the world knew it is no more." Thus last week cabled New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews. His dispatch dashed recent hopes that Florence had suffered little at Nazi hands. Said Matthews: ". . . The heart of Florence is gone. . . . What little credit [the Nazis] previously got for sparing the Ponte Vecchio (TIME, Aug. 14) must now be withdrawn . . . because instead they destroyed many medieval palaces at both ends, changing the whole aspect of old Florence...
...Speed, dispatch and great precision...
...blood-collecting activities of the Red Cross are organized, not to reach every possible donor, but to get the largest possible amount of blood with maximum efficiency and dispatch. Because of the scattered location of processing laboratories and other facilities, certain U.S. cities, including Houston, are omitted from the program...
Some interesting points about Eisenhower's restoration of Patton: in Sicily Patton was in command over Bradley; in Normandy the position is reversed. A dispatch from Normandy last week reported that the breakthrough there-which now reglorifies Patton-was "conceived, planned and executed" by General Bradley...
...judicious Post-Dispatch, cheering over the fact that St. Louis has never had a major bloody race riot,* called on the citizens: "It is better to bring this ugly thing into the open. It is better to avert a crisis before it happens than to weep about it afterward. St. Louisans, white and Negro, let's act like civilized human beings! Let's put hooligans of both races-the lunatic fringe-in jail to cool off when they begin flexing their muscles in public places! Let's continue our old tradition of decent relations between the races...