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...well placed single by Bill O'Neill in the last of the fourteenth driving in Bill Ayres from second base was enough to break up a scoreless tie with the Boston Coast Guard last Saturday at Soldiers Field. Jack Wallace's superlative four-hit pitching effort throttled the sailors for the entire afternoon and gave Coach Floyd Stahl his first victory of 1945 in the season's home opener...
...battle for central Burma was won. Lieut. General Sir William Slim's British and Indian troops had a notable victory. Their Mandalay-Meiktila campaign (TIME, March 19) had broken seven Japanese divisions in what was, by official description, "a merry slaughter." Last week the British Fourteenth Army moved ahead for a swift cleanup of all Burma...
...Chinese High Command had warm words of praise last week for Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. It had helped slow the Japanese thrust into Shensi. But the General was in no mood to praise or be praised. He called in American and Chinese newspapermen to hear harsh news: thieves and gangsters in "both organized and unorganized bands" were hampering the operations of his air force...
...save the strength of the Army, General Chennault urged Chinese people not to buy stolen equipment, which is easily identifiable. Japanese forces, maneuvering in central China, seemed preparing drives against the U.S. bases at Chihkiang in southern Hupeh and Poseh in western Kwangsi. The Fourteenth Air Force would need all its strength...
Wherever Lieut. General Sir Montagu George North Stopford led his XXXIII Corps last week, his flock of ducks went also. Every mess tent had its complement of parrots and parakeets. But even the Fourteenth's men thought last week that a sergeant had reached the ultimate. His new pride & joy was a 10-ft. python, maintained in sheer defiance of Hilaire Bellocs advice on pets: "A python, I should not advise; it needs a doctor for its eyes, and has the measles yearly...