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...Moscow, took a close look at Russian might, then became French commander in Germany. He has the dash that the French like in their generals: fellow officers remember him, wrapped in his Moroccan djellaba, reciting Dante in Rome, singing a song of Schubert's as he crossed the Rhine...
Died. Mady (Marguerita Maria) Christians, 49, one of Broadway's leading old-school actresses (I Remember Mama; Watch on the Rhine) ; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Norwalk, Conn. Born in Vienna, she first walked on stage at 16 in her father's German theater in Manhattan, returned to Germany to study with Starmaker Max Reinhardt, made scores of European films. After a brief marriage to a Hamburg editor, she came to the U.S. again in 1931, played roles ranging from Hamlet's mother to William Powell's screen mistress...
...early morning, armored combat teams of the crack American Constabulary thrust westward in a surprise attack. Paratroops dropped near Frankenthal to secure a Rhine bridgehead. Partisan guerrillas closed in near Kaiserlautern and "destroyed" a supply dump. Threatened on their flanks, the 1st and 4th Divisions reeled back until units of the 2nd Armored Division, in reserve, moved up to hit the aggressors and cover the retreat...
...their final defense line behind the Rhine, the defenders regrouped according to plan. Joined by units of the French and British armies, they prepared to launch a counterattack. Observed by SHAPE Commander Eisenhower, fresh from NATO's impressive "Operation Counterthrust" (TIME, Oct. 1) on the northwest German plain, the invaders will be repulsed, as they always are when the script calls...
...people of western Germany have turned a big corner. Six months ago, stagnation was still everywhere; today, from the Elbe to the Rhine, everything is in motion. Ponderous blocks of new building bulk cleanly amid the jagged skylines. In Hamburg, Frankfurt and Essen, brick red factory construction and flashy white housing projects chase the gloom of rubble grey. The ruins no longer depress, but act as a stimulant to German energy. A Hamburg shipping magnate curtly told me why: "If I don't get something done, I'll go crazy. That's sure. A war may take...