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During the recent months, while millions of men fought for every street and heap of rubble in Stalingrad, Moscow women and a few men were tunneling through clay under the capital, circumventing subterranean streams, pouring reinforced concrete, installing ornate chandeliers and inserting mosaics. For while Russia's leaders have long preached and practiced sacrifice in the name of their country and their ideas, they have always striven to keep before the people some great symbol, beautiful and useful, so that any shawl-swathed peasant woman, any unshaven, fur-clad Siberian trapper could come to Moscow, stare openmouthed in admiration...
...first act was to heap honors on his high command: Distinguished Service Crosses to twelve of his ranking officers (six Americans, six Australians). One of them, Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, was revealed as the U.S. field commander in the Papuan campaign. In an outpouring of long-kept secrets, General MacArthur also revealed the identity of his ground forces in the campaign: parts of the 6th and 7th Australian divisions, and of the American 41st (Oregon, Washington, Montana National Guard) and 32nd (from Wisconsin and Michigan...
...Power. There was perhaps no more unlikely place to look for a Man of 1942 than in prostrate France. Yet two Frenchmen, both of whom the U.S. disliked and distrusted, rose to the top of a soiled political heap. One of them was Pierre Laval, who rose to the honor of a meeting with Hitler to which the tragicomic Benito Mussolini was not invited. If Hitler wins, Pierre Laval may yet be a successful man, Jean François Darlan's deal with General Eisenhower might have profited him eventually, but his award was an assassin's bullet...
...Staff Sergeant Dan Malmuth's letter this week. If a few more of our so-called men had got up on their hind legs and said the same thing a long time ago, all this Waacy-business might have ended up where it belongs-on the junk heap...
...time because he had run out of money, went back to college for a third, fourth and fifth time. Finally, at 32, he made it, came home to shake under Uncle Rollin's nose a diploma from Harvard, where he graduated in 1899 with Henry James and a heap of other smart...