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...center of the new line Bradley had already exploited his speed to get a frontal offensive going, headed east. He had pushed armored and infantry columns out of Rennes to the highway junction of Laval, 148 miles from Paris. Other columns swept down from Fougères to Mayenne, 137 miles from the capital. To the south another had cut to the east...
Died. Georges Barrère, 67, famed flutist (TIME, Jan. 3); after a stroke; in Kingston, N.Y. Alumnus of the orchestra of Paris' Folies Bergères, Flutist Barrère spent nearly 40 years in the U.S., playing in Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, touring with the Barrere Little Symphony, and teaching a whole generation of younger U.S. flutists. He affected an imperial beard, fawn-colored trousers, a Prince Albert and an assortment of exotic flutes made of silver, gold and platinum, valued as high as $3,000 apiece...
...Maquis, about 600 strong, were entrenched on the Plateau des Glières, a tableland in southeastern France near the Swiss border. To wipe them out, the Germans massed an estimated 12,000 men, much artillery, squadrons of planes, planned to open with an artillery barrage. The French fooled them...
...Brassières: "Scratch like a vegetable grater. . . . Could hold a wild bull in leash...
Under Minister of Civilian Supply Axel Gjöres, a former director of Sweden's Cooperative Union, claiming 750,000 consumer families as members, the Swedes run their wartime economy with regulations and ration books. Black markets are controlled through vigorous prosecution. Mounting defense expenditures ($507,500,000 in 1942-43 from 6,400,000 population) are partly met through almost confiscatory taxes in the higher brackets. Rationing covers everything from clothes to tennis balls and all foods except fish (which is too perishable) and fresh vegetables. Laborers doing heavy work and the children of the poor receive extra...