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From the Sea of Okhotsk fog and rain creep southward to shroud a long, splintery island hugging Russia's coast. The island is Sakhalin, stern, unfriendly, peopled with grandsons of the criminals Czarist police sent there to rot and die in chains...
From a trench freshly carved in the fat Ukrainian soil, Colonel General Pavel Rot-mistrov stared across the plain. In the distance smoke rose from burning villages. Buglike Russian tanks crawled forward, angrily broke up German counterattacks. Overhead, Stormoviks bombed and strafed. Before Rotmistrov's eyes ten encircled German divisions were being mashed out of existence...
...Alexander, who accused the correspondents of "blowing hot and cold" in their reports of the month-long beachhead battle. The doughty commander of Allied armies in Italy charged the newsmen with "alarming the people" by switching from overoptimism to overpessimism, was "very disappointed that you should put out such rot." Day before, as a penalty for "such rot," his staff had cut the correspondents' use of the beachhead's radio to Naples, by which the Allied press had received fast, on-the-spot reportage...
Most disappointed man of the week, however, is not Croonersinatra but rather the marine sergeant who was letting the dishes rot, the barracks fester, and the girls alone in anticipation of the arrival of the romantic singer. Happiest were the microphones in the R.K.O. theatres which will now be clung to and loved for as long as the chain pays possibly into the five figures for the vaunted services of the caveman...
That was all the coddling the bacillus rot, but that was enough. When 20 years were up last April, the bacteria in 33 of the tubes were very much alive. To find out whether the live germs were still killers, they were injected into 33 guinea pigs. Result: 22 guinea pigs got bubonic plague; eleven...