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From fragments such as these the world learned of one of the great battles in history. "Not a single battle in past wars has shown such a picture of continuous movement and maneuver on both sides," said the army newspaper Red Star. "The enemy is forever regrouping for flank attacks or attempts at encirclement while our forces are also continuously maneuvering and counterattacking the enemy's flanks and rear...
...Widow Bainter takes refuge in dignified solitude with the Clivedenish family doctor (Miles Mander) and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, but the boardinghouse brogue of her son-in-law's Irish mother (Sara Allgood), her daughter's expected baby, her son's citation for valor flank her personal Maginot Line. Before she can say OCD, she finds herself boss of the bandage brigade...
George Boston, who started out as a tailback but has been converted into an end to bolster the flank squad, comes from Dean Academy and makes his home in Swampscott. He was a marked man from the moment he hit Dillon Field House, partly because of his passing ability, and partly because of his running talents...
...Forte's right flank spot Len Cummings has been outstanding, and will undoubtedly start tomorrow. There are no Freshmen in the eleven which is scheduled to answer the opening whistle, but there are several on the squad...
...mountains offered the Red Army a magnificent chance to stop the Germans, if, instead of depending passively on terrain to do the job, they made aggressive use of their greater knowledge of hidden valleys and obscure roadways, of their opportunities for ambush and sudden flank attack, of the fact that German air power is less useful in the mountains than on level battlefields...