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Gaudiest feather in his cap was his command of the Stalingrad relief campaign. Rokossovsky's forces-tanks, infantry, artillery, aircraft and cavalry-crossed the Don to form a ring around Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus' 22 divisions, anticipated the point of a German counterattack, and in savage and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Maiden's Soldier | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

> After protracted argument and the citation of many an authority, the stubborn editor responsible for this grammatical crime admits it, feels bad.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

This protracted wheedling of Beauty by what Beauty regarded as the Beast might have gone on until Miss Bergman inherited the shawl of Ouspenskaya but for a second Selznick brainstorm. Selznick decided that vociferous blandishments, promises and temptations by cable were still a shade too Hollywood, and quit wearying the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: For Whom? | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

U.S. radio's favorite juvenile has almost no chance of growing up. Crack-voiced Henry Aldrich has been about 16 years old now for the last four years. His protracted adolescence earns his creator (Playwright Clifford Goldsmith) radio's fattest writing fee ($3,000 for one show a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: What a Family | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

The battle for Stalingrad blazed into full fury again after a protracted lull, the High Command reported. Implying that the struggle was raging unabated, it said "our men are selflessly repelling furious enemy attacks."

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/16/1942 | See Source »

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