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...Laura" rates high for suspense value. Although Gene Tierney, who plays Laura, is murdered before the picture begins, her spectacular rise to fame and her peculiar death furnish the material for the plot. Detective Dana Andrews falls in love with a portrait of Laura. This upsets his sleuthing for a while until a near miracle occurs and the screen begins to swim with possible suspects...
Exploitation. General MacArthur and his Sixth Army commander, Lieut. General Walter Krueger, had chosen Leyte as their target because its capture would seal off Mindanao and the other southern and central Philippine Islands, furnish bases for U.S. planes to cut Japan's supply lines to the East Indies storehouses. Then they had picked for the main assault the spot on Leyte where their armor and fire power could be used most advantageously: the upper half of the eastern shore line which leads down into the fertile Leyte Valley...
...Bulgars agreed to renounce all claims to Thrace, which is in Britain's Greek sphere of influence, evacuate all civilian Bulgars from the region. The Bulgars also agreed: ¶ To continue fighting the Germans. ¶ To renounce all claims to Yugoslav territory seized in 1941. ¶ To furnish food to Yugoslavia, Greece...
...west is now committed to the fighting lines. The longer the blow is delayed, the longer Hitler will have to scrape up and train his ersatz divisions, to toughen his defenses in depth. On the other hand, a real breakthrough might tear the present front hopelessly open, might furnish the momentum for the knockout wallop in the west...
Slapping back at U.S. critics of Argentina's nationalism, Buenos Aires' rabidly nationalist Cabildo last week proclaimed itself and its readers possessed of "an Argentine conception of Argentinity," proceeded to furnish an example...