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Last winter the U.S. 10th Mountain Division-skiers turned mountain fighters -swept across the Apennines, took Mt. Belvedere, which two other divisions had attacked in vain. There died Torger Tokle, the towheaded ex-Brooklyn carpenter who became America's greatest ski jumper. The loth, only U.S. division trained for combat on skis, boasted names big in American skiing: Walter Prager, Percy Rideout, Don Goodman, Weir Stewart, John Litchfield. This winter many of them will be back in competition...
...Copello letter, and the subsequent row over just what it meant, fanned a smoldering feud between Argentine liberals and the church. The liberals, mostly good Catholics themselves, think the church too powerful, too meddlesome and too expensive. The church, which still enjoys medieval prerogatives in Argentina, is loth to give an inch...
...Bavarian hills last week Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army hit a weak spot and found a German sore spot. His loth Armored Division carved a startling 30-mile breakthrough to within 45 miles of the upper waters of the Danube. This was a delicate area for the Nazis-the Napoleonic route of invasion toward Vienna. Over it Patch's men might strike through to split Germany...
Died. Technical Sergeant Torger Tokle, 25, towheaded, Norwegian-born ski-jump champion of the Western Hemisphere (289 feet), ex-Brooklyn carpenter; from German shell-fragment wounds; near Monte Torraccio, Italy, as his loth Mountain Infantry Division made a four-mile advance...
...thick with rumors of trouble: that a white boy had been killed by Negroes; that three Negro girls had beaten up a white school girl ; that a Negro had stolen a white boy's girl. As the column of "delegates" approached the Negroes, Cambridge police arrived. They seemed loth to intervene...