Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frenchmen grieved and worried. A Parisian flower-vendor propped a black headline, Roosevelt est mort, against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...
...Adriatic side of the-front Lieut. General Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, soldiers of five different nations in the van, struck from the Senio River across the Santerno and then the Sillaro. The Germans gave ground carefully, holding village strongpoints until the last. By week's end the Eighth had driven farther into the Po basin and was reaching to link up with the Americans below Bologna...
Over the radio came a message from Field Marshal Sir Harold R. L. Alexander: "The moment now has come for us to take the field for the last battle which will end the war in Europe." The French high-command added a word: their troops were attacking along the Italo-French border to strike for the German rear...
Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's Eighth Army, busy winning back the Philippine Islands south of Luzon, found time for an errand of mercy. Troops of Major General Jens A. Doe's 41st Division landed on tiny Culion island, just north of Palawan, to bring freedom, food and medical supplies to the ulcerated, miserable inmates of the world's largest leper colony...
Ever since two MPs chaired him out of his office a year ago and took over his Chicago plant, unforgiving Board Chairman Sewell L. Avery of Montgomery Ward & Co. has sniped indignantly at the Army with charges of bungling his business. Last week, Ward fired a new kind of ammunition...