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The Power. Heading General Dwight Eisenhower's "precision offensive" was tight-lipped Lieut. General Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, commanding the British First Army of vengeful veterans of Flanders and Dunkirk. Second in command was Major General Charles Ryder, commanding auxiliary U.S. assault troops and motorized infantry. R.A.F. Spitfires, equipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Carthage Again | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

The Possibilities. It was too early this week to gauge the quick-flowing battle scene. Dourly General Anderson announced: "This is no picnic." Hitler has a big job if he is to shuttle enough troops to Tunis and Bizerte to fight more than a delaying action. The Allies also have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Carthage Again | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

You Were Never Lovelier (Columbia) does not quite live up to its title but presents fresh evidence that Fred Astaire is still a superb dancer and a deft light-comedian and that Rita Hayworth is. still the most ambrosial lady he has ever teamed with. But Astaire underplays his lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 16, 1942 | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

It also had, among its vivacious, fun-loving cast, two of the most personable and best-equipped fledgling divas that U.S. opera has turned up this season. One, Brooklyn-born Dorothy Sarnoff (no relation to RCA's President David Sarnoff), got her first break as a finalist in last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Light-Opera Boom | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

California's fabulous, far-flung banking Gianninis last week went farther into the U.S. war production than any other bankers. The Gianninis, never orthodox bankers, were all set to buy up-&-coming Ade Precision Products Corp. (Burbank, Calif.), specialist in aviation hydraulic and de-icing equipment. Actual purchase will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Greener Gicmnini Pastures | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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