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Doctor's Post-Mortem. Nürnberg, in whose great stadium the Nazi Party used to assemble in vain glory once a year, had been fanatically defended by Volksstürmer, remnants of the 17th SS Division, elements of 32 different Wehrmacht outfits. After five days of desperate fighting, it fell, on Hitler's 56th birthday. The town (but not the stadium) was 95% ruined. Correspondents who had followed the Allied armies across Germany all the way from Aachen said they had never seen such total destruction...
Americans have always been sure they are the very best people in the world and own all the very best things. Last week, in a long, angry post-mortem on Rundstedt's breakthrough, the New York Times' s military expert, Hanson Baldwin, gave a stiff jolt to this national pride...
...Royal Canadian Navy solemnly passed a word of warning to bearded sailors and sailors who had thought of growing beards. The Navy's Newfoundland Command, concluding a post-mortem on the sinking of the frigate Valleyfield, found that a man overboard can be fatally choked by a heavy beard full of oil and salt water...
...standard "increasing cloudiness and warmer" (words to dampen the enthusiasm of any weekender), Mr. Cameron will carol: "A few light, puffy clouds . . . probably clear weather ahead." Another longtime wish which Weather man Cameron has not yet nerved himself to fulfill is to send the newspapers a daily post-mortem along the lines of "Uh huh, we told you it would rain yesterday, and it did," or "We said thunderstorms. Nothing much happened because a high-pressure area acted up at the very last minute...
...ultimate post-mortem on 1943 college football was pronounced last week by George Strickler, pressagent of the National (professional) Football League: ". . . College football just threw the book [of eligibility rules] out the window and took anybody that came along. Why, they even offered some of our pro players the same salary they were getting in our league, to play for them...