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...prolonged and intense fierceness have been fought. . . . The enemy has sustained very heavy losses but has not shaken the resistance of the bridgehead army. . . . General Alexander has probably seen more fighting against the Germans than any living British commander, unless it be General Freyberg, who is also in the fray. Alexander says the bitterness and fierceness of the fighting now going on both at the bridgehead and on the Cassino front surpasses all his previous experience.* He even uses in one message to me the word 'terrific...
Republican National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler, undeterred by numerous political prattfalls, charged fresh into the fray last week. He read in the newspapers that Marine Pfc. Edward Meyerson of Montclair, NJ. had written home from the South Pacific to ask his mother for some old Willkie campaign buttons-but that his letter had been censored when he explained why he wanted them. Wrote Chairman Spangler to Secretary of the Navy Knox...
...year stands at four losses and a tie. Before Saturday's game, they had lost to the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy 7 to 1 and tied the squad 3 to 3; to Worcester Polytechnic Institute they lost 7 to 2; and in their final fray of last term the sailors of the French battleship Richelieu were victorious...
Wally Mroz, who was hurt in the Camp Edwards fray, was in shape to start the game, but he aggravated that injury early in the first quarter, and had to be assisted from the field...
Argumentum. Into the fray next day jumped the News, to bat for itself, its sister papers and the Hearst Press, to bat at the Herald Tribune. Said the News in the best Joe Patterson manner: "The President's purpose, obviously, was double-barreled: 1) to intimidate all newspapers and magazines in the United States into subservience to his will; 2) to further his ambition for a fourth term...