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...Gaudiest feather in his cap was his command of the Stalingrad relief campaign. Rokossovsky's forces-tanks, infantry, artillery, aircraft and cavalry-crossed the Don to form a ring around Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus' 22 divisions, anticipated the point of a German counterattack, and in savage and protracted battle defeated the powerful Panzer army of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein. It was Rokossovsky who signed the demand for capitulation sent to Paulus, which was rejected and which led to the final destruction of Hitler's Stalingrad army. It was the greatest single victory...
...waiting until their babies are ready to arrive, most mothers now call him in advance and submit to a full course of prenatal care (the doctor's fee, including delivery: $35, lately raised from $25). But they still insist on having their babies at home in billowy feather beds, where the doctor, swearing softly, makes sutures as best...
Most credit for the operation goes to what the Navy calls its shore fire-control parties, made up mainly of young "Feather Merchants," nickname for Naval Reserve officers. Sensing the amphibious demands of the coming war, the Navy started training shore fire-control officers three years ago, tried them out in the Southwest Pacific, the Aleutians and North Africa. Sicily was their first big test...
...were driven from Illinois. The flight from Nauvoo ("The city of the Lord God Jehovah King of Kings. ... In February, 1846, it was fallen-that great city") is memorable. "Acres of ice" floated in the Mississippi. "The ferries were jammed with men, women, children, horses, oxen, cows, swine, chickens, feather beds, Boston rockers, a miscellany of families and goods hastily brought together in the fear of death. The boats dumped them on the Iowa shore and turned back for other, identical freights-American refugees fleeing a city under threat from an enemy...
Everybody loves a comeback. Last week flat-faced, chocolate-colored little Henry Armstrong, who once held the feather, light-and welterweight championships of the world simultaneously, endeared him self to the ring fans with one of the fightingest comebacks that ever lost the judges' decision. His defeat was a great success...