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...across Hitler's Europe the Allied airmen's campaign of destruction continued. At week's end it reached another climax. R.A.F. bombers staged a second saturation raid. This time they were over Nürnberg, vital railroad center, crowded factory city and Naziism's shrine. Inside of 45 minutes 1,500 tons of bombs poured down...
...Wesseling, other industrial targets in the famed university city of Bonn. The raid was expensive: Twenty-five bombers were lost, mostly over Gelsenkirchen. Apparently the Germans were no longer able to defend more than one city at a time. To the Heart. R.A.F. bombers struck in force at Nuremberg, shrine of the Nazi party. Two large diesel-engine factories, two trunk railway junctions and other targets felt the weight of more than 1,500 tons of bombs, including thousands of incendiaries. Returning pilots reported the Germans using Dornier-217 bombers as night fighters, indicating the Nazi shortage of fighter aircraft...
...Schooler enterprises now: 1) dances seven nights a week at the Aragon; 2) swing shift dances on Friday and Saturday at Casino Gardens (12:30 to 5 a.m.); 3) Shrine Auditorium dances for Negroes about once a month, whenever a big-name Negro band is available; 4) barn-dancing in the Plantation Ballroom, Culver City...
Over the living-room mantle, as in a shrine, hangs a portrait of Woodrow Wil son, by Sir William Orpen, perhaps the best portrait of Wilson ever made. In the ballroom, in pre-rationing days, he some times dined as many as 96 people, to the accompaniment of footmen in bright blue livery...
Outside of Manhattan's sweaty "Jacobs Beach," shrine of U.S. fisticuffs, the boxingest place in the U.S. is probably Camp Butner, near Durham, N.C. There every soldier boxes as a regular part of his physical training...