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...Western visitor finds relief in leaving Belgrade. The Ori ent Express, which had come from Stamboul and Sofia, crawled across the snowy Voivodina plain. In my first-class wagon-lit compartment, the washbasin was dirty. There was neither soap nor towel. The bed pillows were grubby. The Serbian Pullman attendant grabbed my passport and exit permit and as good as told me that was all he had to do - from there on it was a mat ter of indifference to him whether I starved, sang or jumped out of the window. In fact, I munched salami between gross layers...
...wangled a good contract. He got control of an established medical and hospital insurance fund, levied ori payrolls, and previously controlled by the operators. But they had offered that to him, too. He got the fashionable 18½?-an-hour pay rise. The mine owners had been willing to go a cent higher. He had gotten $100 vacation pay. The operators had offered him the same figure...
Advancing in the Remagen bridgehead, Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army men brought the highway under artillery fire, then inched forward to machine-gun range. Thus they cut an important Nazi lateral communication line ori the east bank of the Rhine. Finally a 78th Division platoon, led by a staff sergeant, crossed the road in what one correspondent called "a gallant, old-fashioned infantry charge across 250 yards of coverless, fire-swept ground." At week's end the Yanks were astride the road along a six-mile stretch and had pushed a mile beyond...
City detectives sent ori a man hunt could find nobody who had seen the vandals at work. Mayor LaGuardia posted a $500 reward. The State Secretary of the Communist Party damned the daubing as "Fascist vandalism directed against the unity of the United Nations and the American people...
...Howard, who recently came out as a supporter of Wendell Willkie, could not give his side of it last week. He was in the Far East gathering material on the Ori ental situation, visiting Australia, Japan, China, The Netherlands East Indies, the Philippines...