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Right halfback Lee Lothram provides the aerial power, while Jim Formwalt can perform variegated chores on the other flank. Sure to see action is Stan Kulakowski, a definite threat in the tailback position...
...East, an unsupported and economically battered China blocked the Russian advance. Some thought that Secretary of State Marshall had made a mistake in writing off China and that the U.S. position would be greatly strengthened if he frankly admitted it and promptly bolstered this traditional Asiatic flank of U.S. foreign policy...
...Moldavian border, 180 miles northeast of Bucharest, Rumanian troops were exchanging shots with Russians. But suddenly the Rumanians turned their guns on the Germans, and Hitler's largely Rumanian-manned southern flank gave way to a Red Army romp. Behind the historic switch was an historic conversation-of the sort novelists spend agonized years trying to reconstruct. But this dialogue had been carefully recorded on a talking disc by a boyish, gadget-loving King, and seldom had the most imaginative of novelists equaled it. Last week, as Rumania celebrated the third anniversary of Aug. 23, TIME Correspondent Robert...
Minutes later the first search planes headed out. Navy and Coast Guard patrol craft steamed out of Pearl Harbor. A destroyer squadron en route from the West Coast was ordered to the scene at flank speed. Aboard the ditched B-17 was a contingent of top officers from General Douglas MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters. Among them: Political Adviser (and Ambassador) George Atcheson Jr., chairman of the Allied -Council for Japan...
...between East and West, the very fact that the 21 nations of the Western Hemisphere could discuss their common problems was reassuring and hopeful to the people of the Americas. For the U.S., deeply involved in both Europe and Asia, there would be satisfaction in knowing that the southern flank was secure...