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Colonel William S. Wood, FA, new PMS&T and head of the Quartermaster Corps and Field Artillery ROTC units, will be commandant of the entire Army Specialized Training program upon its inception here, he explained early this week. Taking over official command of the Harvard ROTC organization, Colonel Wood explained that the exact date for the new program's beginning is still foggy...
...central sector, U.S. and French patrols cautiously tested the Axis line from Gafsa to Faïd Pass. North, the British First Army, which had repulsed two weeks of savage German jabs, now showed signs of taking a limited offensive. Something was imminent. The possibilities were too explosive for any comparative quiet to last very long. Said Eisenhower...
...that morning, as suddenly as they had started their drive ten days before from Faïd Pass (TIME, Feb. 22), the Germans turned tail and withdrew...
...dull gallery walls were aflame with pictures of orange and crimson plazas in Valparaiso and Santiago. Luis Herrera Guevara, a Chilean "primitive" painter of great splash & dash, was having his first U.S. exhibition, in Manhattan. He showed sailing boats in a topsy-turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
Death In the Groves. A canopy of screeching Stukas shook U.S. soldiers, experiencing dive-bombing for the first time. Thirty German tanks poured out of Faïd Pass. Artillery, infantry and 50 German tanks moved out of a point north of the pass (see map). South around Maknassy the Germans rolled toward the road that connects Sidi bou Zid with Gafsa. Another column pounded toward Gafsa itself. Mark IVs and some of the new, giant Mark VIs overran the positions of green. U.S. artillerymen, who sometimes scarcely had time to fire one round...