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...Nevel sector, which looks like a dagger aimed at the Baltic States and northern Poland, there was fierce action again, and the Germans acknowledged a "major penetration" of their lines. West of Nevel some Russian columns were now within 50 miles of the Latvian, 40-odd miles of the Polish border. Gomel still faced doom and Red troops were barely a dozen miles from German held Vitebsk...
...Russia's 1,500-mile front promised major victories, which may come during the Tripartite Conference. During the week Moscow announced: > The capture of Nevel, key stronghold on the important Kalinin front. > The entry into Gomel's suburbs, the capture of villages within 62 miles of the Latvian border, 22 miles of Vitebsk, 30 miles of Mogilev...
...According to Stockholm, broke through the German defenses on the Velikie Luki front and sent a "Latvian Army of Liberation" toward the Latvian border, some 70 mi. away...
...sudden thrust, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov advanced 65 miles in ten days, swept around the Valdai Hills; recaptured Kholm, only 110 miles from the Latvian frontier; and cut the Leningrad-Vitebsk railroad, essential to German communication with Leningrad. In addition to claiming the death of 17,000 Germans, the Russians claimed the capture of 1,000 barrels of gasoline, 10,000 cans of Norwegian food, 150 freight cars of war supplies and "large stores" of good French wine...
...discoveries in the Museum of Modern Art's show were Boston's 28-year-old Hyman Bloom and Seattle's 31-year-old Morris Graves. Until the Museum's Painting Curator Dorothy Miller dug him out of a hermit-like existence in a Boston slum, Latvian-born Painter Bloom had been painting in solitary squalor in a little second-story studio...