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Stalin means steel, but Stalin Line does not mean steel wall. The Stalin Line is an intermittent series of fortifications in depth, a ribbon of redoubts averaging 25 miles across, and too long-1,100 miles-to be solid. It was mostly built in the Maginot era of military thought, and its early links were finished in 1933. But lessons learned on other lines have been hastily applied. Still the Stalin Line has blank spots, and places where lakes and marshes are trusted too much. The Germans seemed to think the Stalin Line could be turned nearly as easily...
Popular with Washington bigwigs. Godfrey raises blue-ribbon horses, is an honorary buck private in the U.S. cavalry, a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve...
...Road has been within 350 miles of Japanese airfields. The Road is peculiarly vulnerable: it passes over two bridges slung precariously in gorges of the Mekong and Salween Rivers, and as it winds around the shoulders of huge hills it is as easy to see as a yellow ribbon binding a pile of green bundles. That it has not been permanently cut has been due to the halfheartedness and poor aim of Japanese bombers, and to the amazing Chinese capacity for regeneration. Thousands of coolies mend steel bridges with bamboo and rope, fill craters and landslides with little basketfuls...
...predicted a bad end for the dictators by plunging into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church, 83-year-old head of the Carnegie Institute, who offered a million dollars last year for the abduction of Hitler, returned his Legion of Honor ribbon to France, explained to Marshal Henri Petain: ". . . Under your recreant Government it has lost its value." ∙∙ Eighty-four-year-old Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe) had a Cellophane window put in her glove so as not to hide her diamond wrist watch...
...when Millionaire Marvin Leonard, a native Texan who had parlayed a downtown popcorn stand into Fort Worth's biggest department store, plunked a $25,000 guarantee on the directors' table of the U.S. Golf Association, its bigwigs decided that Texans deserved to play host to the blue-ribbon event of golf...