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...country's swankest mule race was held a fortnight ago at Greenwood, Miss. Five thousand Delta planters and cotton pickers packed the American Legion ball park for the fourth annual running of the event. The card consisted of five heats and a sweepstakes. Stubborn Delta plow mules, bedecked for superstition's sake with turkey feathers, squirrel tails and paper festoons, were mounted by Negro plowboys in overalls and gaudy silk shirts. Proceeds were earmarked for Mississippi's underprivileged preschool children...
...first times since El Alamein, Monty had his tanks out ahead of the infantry. The attack rolled forward irresistibly-for five miles. Then it stalled in front of a murderous screen of German 88-mm. guns, mortars, cleverly emplaced tanks firing like mobile pillboxes. The tanks could not plow into the wall of fire that faced them; they had to be drawn back without achieving a major clash with German armor. Correspondents applauded Monty's economy of casualties...
This week Shimada had to make a new set of plans to stave off the Americans, who certainly intend to plow into his inner defenses. Except for his German counterpart, no leader had the impossible alternatives that lay before Shimada. He could come out and fight, hurl his whole force against the U.S. fleet. The result would be destruction. Or he could stand on his one thrust at the enemy and keep his fleet in being, a threat that might never be used but that would have to be reckoned with. Or he could spend his fleet piecemeal in harassing...
Cannon of basic design that goes back to the Civil War (when breechloaders were first used) will plow and batter the Continent, preparing it for the onward sweep of infantrymen and armor. Western Europe will quake then with cannonading greater than last week's Allied barrage at the Gustay Line. Artillery will determine the pace and final success of the push inland. With few important qualifications, the old adage still stands: God is on the side with the best cannon...
Cannon of basic design that goes back to the Civil War (when breechloaders were first used) will plow and batter the Continent, preparing it for the onward sweep of infantrymen and armor. Western Europe will quake then with cannonading greater than last week's Allied barrage at the Gustay Line. Artillery will determine the pace and final success of the push inland. With few important qualifications, the old adage still stands: God is on the side with the best cannon...