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WTAG was Russian virtually all day, all week. Its 37 musical programs concentrated on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Women listening to the Modern Kitchen program jotted down new recipes for beef a la Strogonov, flounder grecheski, pickled herring, borsch, and honey beet jam.* Speakers on WTAG's weekly Forum broadcast from Clark University were Russian Vice-Consul Stepan Z. Apresian and Cornell University's Professor of Russian Literature Ernest J. Simmons. The one radio stunt of the week that didn't come off was an address by Moscow Novelist S. Sergeyev-Tsensky...
Lieut. General William Simpson's Ninth Army was so fresh and fit that it was almost going stale. Its front was jam-packed with men and supplies. Every day the Germans were strengthening the maze of defenses between the Roer and the Rhine. The Russians were waiting. Eisen hower could not wait any longer...
...championship bout drew 10,247 customers. Four nights later, Welterweight Walker ("Sugar Ray Robinson") Smith (148½ lbs.) proved that punches speak louder than titles. A crowd of 18,060 jam-packed Madison Square Garden to see chocolate-colored Sugar Ray knock the block off game Middleweight Jake La Motta...
...Left Right? In the South Pacific, an Australian unit scheduled to take over the ground defense of an American base thoughtfully learned to drive on the right-hand side of the road instead of the left, ran into a roaring traffic jam on arrival because U.S. troops had thoughtfully learned to drive on the left...
...clear away the debris of departed diners. Four standees waited to be fed. Then the Germans filed in, stood stiffly while their guards bustled about ordering diners to seats at other tables so the prisoners could sit together. , The P.W.s ate a hearty dinner of stewed chicken, white bread, jam, ice cream. The standees swallowed their anger. On the battlefronts U.S. soldiers ate "C" rations from cans, and were glad to have them...