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Hamburg. Düsseldorf was the capstone in the week's grim monument of destruction. The bombers' first target was Hamburg. On that factory of submarines and other war machines more than 600 bombers dumped their loads-first tens of thousands of fire bombs, then high explosives shatteringly climaxed by 4,000-lb. "block busters." Two nights later the bombers gave Hamburg more of the horrible same in the pit that was still burning from the first raid...
What in hell are we supposed to do, sit and wait for another "bloody monument to divided responsibility," as Pearl Harbor is described by Colonel Hugh J. Knerr [TIME, June 1], before the powers that be, in the Army & Navy, skip traditional arguing and realize the vulnerability their collaboration deems...
...today the Gissimo, usually a monument of calm confidence, makes no secret of the fact that he is more worried than at any time in five years...
Pearl Harbor is "a bloody monument to divided responsibility," says Colonel Knerr. But even now it is under a "threeway split command between Admiral Nimitz, the Navy district commander, and the Army airman Lieut. General Delos Emmons...
...Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration today is a monument to 23 successful years' direction by Dean Wallace Brett Donham. It can count a faculty to match its impressive buildings, a business library second to none, an enrollment of over 1,000 U.S. businessmen-to-be. Most other business schools, including the famed London School of Economics, have patterned themselves on Dean Donham's model...