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...Russian position and opened fire before the Russians knew they were there. . . . While these 100 Finns kept the Russians occupied from the front, 100 more made a flanking movement uphill on both sides of the Russians and the circle of Finns poured hell into the enemy. ... It was a half-hour slaughter, with unceasing machine-gun, rifle and grenade fire. Then it stopped as suddenly as it began. ... In ten minutes all the Finns had filtered back with their wounded, saying that most of the Russians had been killed but a couple of hundred had managed to escape...
...bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later a squadron of Messerschmitt pursuit ships came up. For an exciting half-hour the British were under fire by turns from above and below...
...Chicago Fellows meet for 50? lunches at the Brevoort Hotel on Tuesdays, listen to speeches on "How I Came to Jesus," enjoy a half-hour of "Christian fellowship." Most of the Fellows are white-collar workers, with a scattering of executives like Board Chairman James Lewis Kraft of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., Vice President Frank Flagg Taylor of Continental Illinois Bank. Still spark plug of the club is Cartoonist Shoemaker, who contributes drawings to the club paper, lately packed a Tuesday meeting by demonstrating the "Shoescope," a $1,500 contraption which projects his cartoons, as he draws them, upon...
Professorial, omni-opinionated Walter Boughton Pitkin, author, at 54, of Life Begins at Forty (1932), was a "guest expert" on Canada Dry's Information Please program, sat clam-mum throughout the entire half-hour quiz. Afterwards, he explained apologetically why he had not opened his mouth: he is hard of hearing, heard not a single question...
...main commercial nowadays is Information Please, which is right up his broad alley. For this weekly half-hour, he collects $100 a week from Canada Dry. But since he announces it on NBC's time, the network thriftily docks him three-quarters of an hour's basic pay-about...