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...Eighteen indispensable men got ready last week for another winter's work. They were the contrabassoonists of the eighteen big U.S. symphony orchestras. Without them, the U.S. symphonic season could not get off to a start. Though a contra-bassoonist without a symphony orchestra may be the lowest down of all musical phenomena, a symphony orchestra with out a contrabassoonist is not low enough...
...door of Mohamed AH Jinnah's Bombay bungalow swung open. Out stepped Mohandas K. Gandhi. Eighteen days after they began, the Moslem-Hindu unity talks between the leaders of the Moslem League and the All-India Nationalist Party had ended. Result: stalemate...
...Eighteen Canadian soldiers and a Canadian officer had been captured by the Germans, then "wilfully" murdered. The shocking announcement was based on a factual investigation by an unhurried and "completely dispassionate" joint U.S.British-Canadian Court of Inquiry. Details were meager and evidence undisclosed. But it was known that the murders had occurred at Pavie, on the Caen-Bayeux highway, two days after Dday. Thirteen of the victims had been machine-gunned in a group. The Germans responsible were "members of the 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion of the 12th SS Panzer Division." (The SS murderers, reported Canadian Pressman Ross Munro...
...first wave of the 3rd Marine Division (part of the Third Am phibious Corps under Major General Roy Stanley Geiger, USMC) hit the beach between Adelup Point and Asan, north of Orote. Eighteen waves followed them with triphammer precision...