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...east, Germany's "safety belt" between the White Russian river barriers and the Vistula, extending to a depth of 300 to 350 miles, had been overrun in six weeks. The German attempt to yield it slowly had been a colossal failure. The Nazi defense had been neither skillful nor economical: the prisoners taken by Russia could be totaled in six figures. The Russians battered on toward German soil...
Early one morning last week some 70 haggard German soldiers climbed out of a sand pit on the edge of Minsk's ancient Jewish cemetery, whose gravestones glared at them in silent reproach. The Red armies had overrun Minsk four days before, and were now rolling on far to the west, but the 70 Germans did not know that. They thought Minsk was still held by the Wehrmucht. When they started into the city, the Russian garrison mowed them down to the last...
Missourians heard strange news from their sons and brothers in Alaska. There the Army camps are overrun with dogs -mongrels and curs of all descriptions -called "Bombproof" and "Propwash," dogs raised by the soldiers and pampered beyond the dreams of any U.S. pet. In Alaska, too, there was an echo of Prohibition. Bored G.I.s invented a new drink, dubbed it "Aleutian Solution." Contents: one part "torpedo juice" or medical alcohol, two parts grapefruit juice. CJ A Californian in the farthest South...
Stoyan himself joined our staff in 1940, right after he finished World Without End, a history the New York Times called "the best book about the Balkans in a long time." At first he worked as a writer for FORTUNE, but after Yugoslavia was overrun by the Nazis his one wish was to get back to his own country as a TIME correspondent. Until last fall, the closest he could get was Britain, where he worked on the staff of our London office and kept in close touch with the Balkan underground (he is one big reason why TIME...
...years the $462,000,000 International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. helplessly watched the Axis overrun one of its properties after another, from France to Shanghai, watched its earnings nose-dive with each new blitz. But last week hawk-nosed, Virgin Island-born I. T. & T. President Sosthenes Behn released an annual report for 1943 which showed that the war is finally working for, instead of against, his globe-girdling behemoth...