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...supplement to the fine portrayal by word and picture of the man "with the tender eyes and jaw of iron" [Chiang Kaishek] in TIME, June 1, the following is quoted from one of the daily readings in our current quarterly...
...though these pilots burned a black belt of gutted hulks across the desert, they noticed that the main German force was getting nearer, swinging north and east, splitting, opening like a jaw. Things seemed to be getting worse. A huge tank battle was developing, and Rommel seemed to be forcing his way north to the coast. The German High Command announced that the desert fighting was finally taking "a favorable course" for the Axis...
...Hitler's favorites was his longtime chauffeur, the late Julius ("Pistol") Schreck, who sometimes concealed as many as seven guns about his person. In 1937 one of Hitler's adjutants told Schreck, who had a swollen jaw from an abscessed tooth, that, looking as he did, he ought not to drive the Führer. Schreck went to his garage, slashed at the abscess with a screwdriver, tried to extract the tooth with a pair of pliers, left for his drive with a raging fever, subsequently died of infection. Hitler wept openly at his death...
...Soldiers who have fought under him say that when they knew they were to talk with him, they would write down what they planned to say, memorize it, and then be unable to speak when they looked at that calm, mysterious face with the tender eyes and jaw of iron...
...misstep that would bring Kroener within reach of his huge hands. Once the gorilla caught his keeper's arm, yanked it through the bars, bit it so savagely that Kroener was crippled for life. On one occasion Gargantua broke Kroener's nose; once he shattered his jaw. Kroener's strange devotion never faltered...