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...Reich, throw Germany back into the chaos of little states which Bismarck made a nation, and thus wreck the victors' plans for a united but weakened Germany. In the confusion, the underground Nazis would do their damndest to make life impossible for the occupying troops, keep "a ruthless grip on a cowed population." Concluded the Observer...
Stilwell's Chinese and American infantry reached the outskirts of the Japanese supply base in north Burma last fortnight -after a bitterly difficult 23-day march. At week's end they still had a firm grip on the most important airfield in north Burma, two miles to the south, were attacking from positions north and southwest of the village. The capture of Myitkyina appeared only a matter of time...
Many a layman was jubilant that the pacifist grip on the Church had been broken. But the score of Army and Navy chaplains present were not so happy. Said one: "The Church has lowered her flag." Said another: "When this bloody business is over, there is going to be a wave of revulsion against war, and Methodist men are not going to be proud that their Church had any part...
...Joseph P. Day legends over & over. He was the man who used no gavel to knock down his sales, but had the auction block padded to keep his right hand from fracturing; the man who relaxed his nerves by quaffing pineapple juice and having two strong-arm men grip his arms and his heels and try to pull him apart; the man who invariably breakfasted on acidophilus milk and lunched on crackers & milk and ice cream...
Many U.S. editors have tried to explain the Bulletin's long, steadily strengthened grip on Philadelphia's readers. Most have given up with a too-easy revision of its slogan to: "Only in Philadelphia Would Nearly Everybody Read the Bulletin." The paper fits no familiar pattern for success. Unlike the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it almost never upsets an applecart, seldom even nudges one. It does not go in heavily for foreign correspondence. It is never spectacular...