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...months the enterprise squeaked through by selling two tickets for the price of one-mostly to high-school-age smirkers. In January it was set to close, but was taken over by a saloonkeeper and a hat-check man who abandoned the play's haphazard promotion for a frontal attack featuring sex. Lately, with $3,800 expenses, the play has raked in $10,000 a week, and a road company is being rehearsed. Its destination: war-busy, well-heeled Detroit...
...Britain had come the cannon and munitions that had softened the dam. From the U.S. had come M-4 (General Sherman) * tanks mounting high-velocity, 77-mm. cannon that outranged the lower velocity German 755 by more than 700 yards. At 1,000 yards they tore holes in the frontal German armor, at 2,000 yards pierced side armor. A Seaforth Highlander reported that Italian shells bounced off his General Sherman "like tennis balls...
...from Africa like a beckoning finger, vulnerable to combined land-sea-air attack. The French know that one reason for the failure of the De Gaulle-British expedition two years ago was the lack of sufficient land and air strength in support of the Royal Navy's frontal assault. The French also know that the United Nations-with an air base at Bathurst (some 80 miles to the south) and troop pools filling up with U.S. soldiers along the African west coast-are unlikely to repeat their error...
...September 1942 Hitler promised that Stalingrad "will be taken" (TIME, Oct. 12). Last week the German High Command abandoned the frontal assault on Stalingrad...
...Army advanced six miles near the confluence of the Gzhat River and the mighty Volga's headwaters. Bridgeheads were established across the Gzhat. The Russians met terrific resistance from Germans holding a railway line until a simultaneous frontal and flank assault forced a Nazi retreat. Day after day the Russians hammered forward across the Volga and into the outskirts of Rzhev. House by house the Germans defended the city which had been their most advanced headquarters on the northern front. Churches and other thick-walled structures had been turned into small fortresses, with mortars and machine guns...