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Loose at the Seams. A persistent lateral stretching of the fighting front is a painful business for an enemy holding undermanned positions. In the east, the Russians had pulled the Germans apart at the seams by extending the active front from a 200-mile jump-off line around Vitebsk to the present long reach between the Baltic and the Carpathians. The Anglo-U.S. armies could not do this on the narrow Italian peninsula. But they could do as well by an over-water leap to France, bypassing the Gothic Line and the Alps. In effect, this created...
Paulette Goddard, well-gammed gamin of the cinema, was back in Manhattan from an eleven-week, 38,000-mile U.S.O. Camp Show tour. In the CBI (China-Burma-India) war theater, where she was the first U.S. woman entertainer, Paulette had a narrow escape: at the jump-off field in Burma the weather looked dirty, so the pilot who had won in a lottery (TIME, March 13) the right to take her over the Hump decided to wait; that night another plane crashed in the Himalayas. Tabbed "Madame Cheesecake" by the G.I.s, she was given a scroll by vinegary Lieut...
...sweet and final touch only a few hours before the invasion's jump-off, a special flight of Liberators wheeled in over Taormina and dumped heavy demolition and incendiary bombs on the San Domenico hotel, which Allied intelligence had discovered to be the Axis military headquarters. The hotel and the city's nearby telephone and telegraph building were reduced to heaps of smoking rubble, paralyzing the nerve center of the island's defense organization at least temporarily...
George Dillon will be one of the forwards at the opening jump-off with Dean Hennessey, '45 star, probably at the other forward post. Close behind them and pretty sure of substitution early in the game are Tom Axon and Frank Bixler...
Bull's-Eye. Ghormley's first objective was soon announced. It was Tulagi, one of the best harbors in the Solomons, which the Jap had held since early June for his Indies defensive screen and for a jump-off place if he should decide to head south across the Australian supply line again...