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...first day a fleet of U.S. heavy Fortresses and Liberators, covered by 1,000 fighters, roared out from Britain to launch the big push against the aircraft centers of Leipzig, blasted the night before by 1,000 R.A.F. bombers, Oschersleben,. Gotha, Bernburg, Brunswick, Halberstadt, Tutow, and even faraway Posen in conquered Poland. That night the massive Lancasters and Halifaxes of the R.A.F. trundled out to shower down 2,240 tons of bombs in a raid on Stuttgart over 450 miles from London...
...From faraway Moscow had come blunt talk about the legerdemain with the Blue Division. The Reds, Franco saw, were onto the trick which had dissolved Spain's proud contribution to the anti-Bolshevik war-by reclothing some 1,500 men as members of a new Spanish Legion in the Wehrmacht. Other blasts from Moscow spoke of oil and bread and strategic materials which Russia thought Spain was still sending Hitler. Franco could shrug; the outbursts were plainly directed at Russia's Allies, held no special meaning for Spain so long as they produced no change in London...
...first issue of TIME arrived a few days ago. . . . In Sicily, Africa or any other faraway spot . . . it is necessary to put a lock and chain on every incoming issue if one wishes to read it before its pages are mutilated...
...Guinea Allied bombers ranged beyond Salamaua, to which Jap soldiers still clung, to hit at the Jap supply route which winds through the jungles and along the shore. They smacked faraway Wewak, where the route begins, sank three 7,000-ton freighters in the harbor there, set a fourth transport and a destroyer ablaze. They smashed Jap headquarters at Lae with 84 tons of bombs...
...Never Been Licked (Universal) plants a bright new thumbtack on Hollywood's regional map of collegiate cinemilieus. To football-famed Texas A. & M. from the faraway Philippines comes one Brad Craig (Richard Quine). He finds hazing a dreadful ordeal, but finally decides to stick it out. Brad is assigned by a chemistry professor to guard a secret formula; it is mysteriously stolen and he is bounced out on his ear. By way of Tokyo he eventually gets to Midway and wins the Congressional Medal of Honor for helping to destroy a Japanese aircraft carrier. Death finally comes to Brad...