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Marshal Georgy Zhukov's men battled in the streets of Tarnopol (see map). This 400-year-old town is a gateway to the great fortress of Lwow; the key to the fate of the German armies in the Ukraine. To hold it, the Germans rushed in huge reinforcements (a Red scouting plane saw a column of 400 tanks), emplaced guns on a hill dominating the town, fought for every house...
...every race, creed, and color, the chaplains graduated from Harvard's school have undergone training in grave registration, gas detection, first aid, Army administration and routine, map-reading, and military sanitation...
...MacArthur's unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New Britain. Rabaul, a great naval and air base, only 830 miles from Truk, may be MacArthur's next target...
...about Negroes, has already been in place two years. It attracts many Negro scholars, has trebled in size since it was installed. It includes the books, manuscripts and photographs which Van Vechten began accumulating while writing Nigger Heaven, the novel which put Harlem on the U.S. cultural map. It includes, too, unique Negro musical material...
Last week the Germans blew up their defenses, abandoned Staraya Russa. The reason, boldly scribbled across the map of war: fear of being caught by the fast, steady Russian advance from the north. To the jubilant Russians this was a victory as great as the destruction of the Eighth German Army in the Ukraine (see below), as the break-through at Krivoi Rog. This week they looked forward to a still greater triumph: capture of Pskov, railroad gateway into the Baltic States. Of the three Red armies driving on the thousand-year-old stronghold, the closest stood only 28 miles...