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Crowds followed Lieut. General Mark Clark's jeep through the streets. Barelegged young women in summer prints and sportswear promenaded the Corso Umberto. The view indicated that there was not a girdle in Rome...
Beneath St. Peter's dome stood Monsignor Enrico Pucci, head of the Vatican's semi-official news bureau. He looked out across the jeep-filled streets of the Eternal City and murmured: "Oh, it's just another changing of the guard...
...landings was Acme's stocky, persuasive Bert Brandt (see cut). He would have had a notable scoop if his negatives had not been pooled. Cameraman Brandt took no chances on couriers, made three hitchhiking boat transfers in the rough Channel before reaching England, finished his journey in a jeep. His pictures of the invasion beaches were the first to reach...
...biggest trouble for Henry will probably come from a Sorensen-run Willys. Once in receivership, war-rich Willys netted a healthy profit of $1,558,369 in the six months ended March 31, has $6,862,156 tucked away to build postwar autos. Most important, the jeep designed by Willys and Army Ordnance (TIME, Nov. 3, 1941) has sold itself to the world. No one doubted that Charlie Sorensen intends to duplicate the feat of Big Bill Knudsen who was squeezed out of Ford in 1921. Knudsen went to General Motors, and by booming Chevrolet sales, stole such a vast...
...Italy's rugged mountains, mules and horses can go where a jeep can not go. So these animals, worth a few hundred dollars each in the U.S., are priceless in Italy. Each pack train has its own veterinarian to give first aid. He also decides which wounded animals must be shot, which can be hospitalized. The wounded are moved to the rear, usually tied between healthy animals. Then they are shipped in trucks to the base hospital, an abandoned farm.* There a concrete-floored paddock serves as a ward for wounded and a few sick animals (mules sometimes suffer...