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...gamy Memphis another clean-up campaign was in full swing, and as usual owl-eyed, benign Boss Ed Crump, 67, was the prime cudgel-wielder. This time he was after the cats. Memphis songbirds were in peril, said the boss, so cats must go. A "nice house cat" was all right, but tramps of either sex were out. Promptly cattraps began to appear in Memphis back yards, particularly those of county and city employes. County Commissioner Francis Andrews trapped three right...
...that postwar interests of the U.S. would best be served by an internationally minded man with a capitalistic background. Mr. Willkie has grown in stature since his 1940 defeat, has proved himself to many who did not consider his background adequate to lead the country in time of national peril...
...Christianity of much of Europe has been driven into the catacombs. That of lands like our own, still free, tends to become more intimate and inward," he declared. "But all such movements of retreat inward from a too-difficult outer world bring with them an attendant peril--a willingness to divorce religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, leaving the ordering of civilization as a whole in the charge of candidly secular forces...
...Peril in the North. The Soviet High Command this week announced a full-scale offensive in the north, below Leningrad. Led by Marshal Semion Timoshenko, the Russians-taking full advantage of the remaining weeks of winter-were attacking the entire German 16th Army near Lake Ilmen. Moscow said that over 300 towns and settlements had been retaken, that 11,000 Germans were killed or captured. Success would mean that the Germans would be outflanked on the approaches of Leningrad. Then, especially if the Finns managed to make peace the whole Nazi position in the north would be in peril...
...Navy announcement that more than 850 lives were lost in the sinking of two North Atlantic passenger-cargo ships had driven home the U-boat peril to the U.S. (TIME, March 1). The horror came home with Signalman Robert Weikart, whose ship was the first to reach the spot where one of the torpedoed vessels went down. Said Weikart...