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...Napoleonic penman was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Fort Sumter, whom President Jefferson Davis first entrusted with the defense of Richmond. "Old Bory" had a bloodhound's eye and a theatrical, martial look. Taking command at Manassas Junction, he showed a pardonable confidence in the fighting spirit of his troops, the first and fiercest volunteers. His notions of their tactical capacity-communicated in eloquent notes to Richmond-were purely visionary...
...Russia's top leaders. From Georgia, one of a multitude of small republics and autonomous regions in the Caucasus, Joseph Stalin went forth to power. Georgia also gave to Russia Grigory Ordzhonikidze, late great commissar of heavy industry, and Ordzhonikidze gave his name to the town at the junction of two highways. These and other native sons helped to make the Caucasus strong by granting the states autonomy within the Soviet Union. Last week their land and their wisdom were at stake as the Germans drew nearer...
...Junction. In Memphis, Andrew Jackson Poulton, en route from Farwell, Tex. to visit his brother after a 32-year separation, sat on a park bench, bummed a match from a stranger who turned out to be Thomas Jefferson Poulton, en route from Maydee, Tenn. to visit Brother Andrew in Farwell...
...Allied attack should be made at any new point, it would be, not the Second Front, but only another front. Yet it might save Egypt from Rommel and prevent an eventual junction between Rommel and the German armies now in Russia...
...Hengyang, railroad junction and key point in the southeast China airdrome system, moved a flight from the Twenty-Third Pursuit Group fresh from the Chungking fight. They made the 500-mile run because China's espionage system had told them the Jap would hit there next...