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...across; 3) sustain it on the beachhead. For this the Allies deployed their great strength, the 4,000 ships, 11,000 planes, hundreds of thousands of men, machines, guns. Ike's Nature. The master of this titanic effort is a generally affable, obviously brainy, 53-year-old Midwestern American. As a professional soldier he is distinctly the command-and-staff rather than the warrior type. Ike Eisenhower never took a platoon or a company into battle. The smallest military organization he has ever commanded in actual combat was the Allied Expeditionary Force that went into French North Africa...
...This week, to assure war-plant supplies, WFA took a 60-day Government option on all corn in Midwestern counties...
Darcy is a home-grown product-from Chicago by way of Minneapolis. Massive, 35-year-old descendant of midwestern Norwegians, he got all his vocal training in the U.S., most of his ideas about Parsifal by watching Melchior night after night. At the age of 21 Darcy left home in Minneapolis to study singing, married his Chicago teacher, Mme. Lucie Lenox. After a few years in midwestern vaudeville, singing things like Wagon Wheels complete with cart effect, he tried out as a baritone but failed to win the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air. A year later (in 1940) he tried...
...second open letter to the New Republic, Miller reported that his appeal had brought unorthodox seals of approval plus clothes, paints, brushes and money in sums up to $100 from Midwestern women, "a little businessman," a WAC, soldiers, a 15-year-old boy and other admirers. He repeated his earlier refusal to take any regular job. "Why don't I do as other men, other writers? . . . Because I am different, for one thing. . . . This may seem like quite a tirade . . . yet if tomorrow, by a decision of the Supreme Court, [a] half-dozen terrifying words were restored to currency...
Worms & Snails. The M. & St. L. was a rackety, poor man's railroad long before it slipped into receivership in 1923. Begun in the '70s by Minneapolitans eager to challenge Chicago's monopoly of Midwestern railroading, the line stretched itself into 1,690 miles of jerkwater track running north & south across Minnesota and Iowa, with branches to Peoria and Leola, S. Dak. It never got to St. Louis-and from the day its first track was laid, it was more often in than out of the courts. Its debt was too high, its farm traffic too meager...