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Death & the Dynamo. Civil war forced her back to Athens. She continued to visit the country hospitals, driving through firing lines many times a day. Several of her companions were wounded...
Says a TIME correspondent who has seen the Dodge dynamo in action: "I saw her restore order in the midst of a hundred Greek Red Cross workers who wanted higher pay and persuade a British brigadier to put all his transport at her disposal to carry food to a village above the snow line ... all in twenty minutes...
...Home Ramsay, 61, General Eisenhower's naval commander in chief, topnotch amphibious-operations officer, who organized the evacuation from Dunkirk, planned and executed the naval phases of the Allied invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy; in a plane crash near Paris. A quiet, aloof man (nicknamed "Dynamo" by admiring associates), Ramsay refused to let Churchill watch the landings in Normandy, on the grounds that he and his men would have enough to do without worrying about the Prime Minister's security...
...Fighter Group, he organized the offensives of 1941-42 which whittled away Germany's onetime fighter superiority over western France, and directed the air support for the Dieppe raid in August 1942. Admiral Ramsay is a tough, slit-mouthed, energetic officer who well deserves his nickname "Dynamo," pinned on him in 1940 after he had directed the almost-miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk (code name for which was "Operation Dynamo...
...victory as in defeat, Russia keeps sports humming. This winter's program, the most ambitious since the war, opened New Year's Day in Moscow's huge (capacity 75,000) Dynamo Stadium. Men skaters raced for prizes offered by the newspaper Red Sport. Figure skaters gave exhibitions. But the main event was a hockey match between two of Russia's crack sport clubs, the Dynamo and Spartak Societies...