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The Chinese, trained and equipped by Americans in India, carried the heaviest burden in this opening phase of the continental offensive. In the tortuous jungle country before them, supply was the key to military success. The Jap relied on broad rivers, motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main...
Appleblossom Beauties. The uniform Artist Shepard designed was entirely satis factory to Boss Wrigley. As dignified as the field hockey costume of New Eng land's fashionable boarding schools, it still had the provocativeness of a Sonja Henie skating skirt. Scout Hamilton's job was satisfactory too. He...
The hardboiled, stern Generalissimo, whose mother was a devout Buddhist, came under the influence of three powerful Christian influences in youth and early manhood-Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Mother" K. T. Soong and her daughter, Meiling. In 1930, three years after he had married the brilliant, Wellesley-educated Meiling, Chiang was...
>Marcel Peyrouton, hardboiled, flabby-jowled onetime sponsor of Vichy's version of the Nürnberg Laws and later Ambassador to Argentina, has been Giraud's chief political administrator. Peyrouton has done a good job under his new masters.
A year and a half of kaleidoscopic transition failed to change General McNair's dissatisfaction. A soft-spoken man with light blue eyes, he is perhaps the 20-minute hardboiled realist of the U.S. high command. When others were gasping at the growing might of the U.S. Army in...