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Despite his distaste for the limelight, Jules Stein got his name in the newspapers twice last week. In Manhattan, he took a firmer grip on Broadway by buying out Leland Hayward, play broker and actor's agent. In San Diego, he was charged in a civil suit with violating the antitrust laws...
...tape, Patton habitually asks and gets the impossible from his supply men. During the winter bog-down on the Saar front, the Third's tanks floundered in the greasy mud. Someone recommended "duck bills"-metal flanges to be welded to tank treads to give them wider grip. Patton tried to get them, "through channels," and finally got 168 duck bills- enough to equip one tank. Next day four companies of the Third's ordnance mechanics, about 1,000 men, were set to work on scrapped treads and other material. Patton wanted duck bills. His order was typical: work...
...Many times we have wanted to fold the magazine up; it is hard to remain seated on the low hummocks of satire and humor in the midst of grim events. A satirist at breakfast may get a firm grip on his day's work . . . only to have the whole thing drop out from under him when his eye reaches the casualty list...
...other contests, Company B notched another win, this time from NROTC 3A by the score of 39 to 34; and Standish tightened its grip on first place with a 38 to 30 victory over NROTC 1-2. This afternoon Company A will go up against Company B, while Standish meets Adams...
...leather 3rd Division recovered from its long stymie around Motoyama Airfield No. 2, finally broke through for a 1,000-yd. gain straight up the middle of Iwo Jima. Here it seemed that the Japs might crack wide open. But the Jap flanks held and they tightened their grip on the craggy ravines. Instead of falling apart, the Japs fought more fanatically than ever and postponed their downfall...