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...hero in this picture is Drive, "the best durned coon dog in southeast Missouri," who was rescued last week after having been trapped in a cave in Sugar Camp Hollow, deep in the Ozarks. The dog's owner, Jake Light (right, patting the dog) and some 25 Ozark farmers had worked for ten days, neglecting the war, their homes and their hay-mowing, as they blasted through a 30-ft limestone wall. Drive's rescue made front pages across the land. Tearful Jake wrapped Drive in an old shirt, clambered into his two-seater buggy and went home...
...this desperate tactic of hoarding planes the Nazis have succeeded in holding together a fighter force that will still be formidable. But it is almost certainly a hollow-shell force...
...little iron or steel to spare for this vital industry. Her engineers turned to the ways and the tools of their forebears. They fashioned derricks and drills from lashed timbers. They wove rope from split bamboo. For pipelines, snaking over the land from well to refinery, they used the hollow trunk of the bamboo...
...Alfred Sao-ke Sze, former Ambassador to the U.S., in the Museum of Modern Art Bulletin: "Any child in Russia, Europe, or England, might do the counterpart. . . . A war child of the West would also know, as instinctively as the Chinese child, that a black line drawn along the hollow of the cheek is enough to describe hunger, and that people with empty stomachs seldom stand...
Despite these moves and decisions, the nation's capital still had a hollow feeling. This came from the belief that U.S.-Soviet relations had reached a point of new delicacy. Shaken by the rough-&-tumble diplomatic maneuvers of the Soviet Union, the Administration was worried lest a considerable segment of the U.S. might come to feel that the U.S. was fighting merely to make Europe safe for Russia. Such a feeling might be disastrous in an election year...