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...first few days, at least, fighting on the Gustav Line would be a job of battering the enemy, feeling him out, making him commit his reserves to the wrong place. Possibly not even General Alexander could yet tell where he would finally thrust his knife to rip up the spine of Italy...
...Cover) Off the wet rocks where the seals bark and the tides rip, a rendezvous with a new land this week awaited a big grey ship, a plain man in an austere suit, and a motherly woman with friendly eyes. Under the high, tense arc of Golden Gate Bridge, John Curtin, Labor Leader and Prime Minister of Australia, and his wife Elsie would be getting their first view of the U.S. where it looks the most like home. It had been late summer three weeks ago as their ship passed under Sydney's great bridge and between...
Last week Justice Dennistoun swore in Missouri-born Ewen Alexander McPherson, 65, as the new Chief Justice succeeding James Emile Prendergast, 86. Justice Dennistoun used the occasion to rip into the Free Press. He roared that its editorial was "as treacherous as the attack made by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. It can be compared only to a raid on a hospital ship flying the Red Cross or a mercy ship with all lights burning and no means of defense available...
Pirates. Strong in pitching: Rip Sewell (4-F), Max Butcher (4-F). Weak in hitting and catching...
Garbage and Cripples. He wandered about Vienna, a Rip van Winkle living on dreams of court splendor; sometimes awakened by the sound of rifle fire and the sight of mobs pouring through the street...