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Inch by Inch. Throughout the week the spectacular fighting around the beachhead almost obscured the main Italian battlefront, 53 miles to the east and south, where Fifth Army troops were grinding away at German strong points in and around Cassino. There too, howling storms of rain, sleet and snow gave the Germans an advantage. U.S. troops were battering their way into Cassino, house by house, but the Nazis still controlled at least two-thirds of the town, and were fighting back from the cellars even as tanks pounded the houses down around their ears...
Through low, sleet-laden clouds, Invader (A36) attack-bombers dived on Nazi pillboxes. The Fifth's indefatigable artillery gouged the terrain. Alpine-trained U.S., and Canadian troops climbed snowy slopes where German guns lorded it over the valley floor and Highway 6, the old Via Casillina route to Rome. But the hardest assignment fell to the muddy, regular U.S. infantry...
Arpad, something of a neurotic himself, has whipped up a few more bits of weather information. . . . No thunderstorms tomorrow. Also no sleet, hail, eclipses or earthquakes. First showing of the feature picture at 12:31. . . ." Arpad was born in 1937 (for a few weeks he was called "Eggo - the Vane Bird") when the World-Telegram wanted to dress up Rewriteman H. Allen Smith's wacky weather stories (example: "Workers, arise! This would be a nice day to have off!"). Arpad's pen-&-ink father is 46-year-old Bill Pause (real name: Pause-wang), a greying, soft-spoken...
Outside, a sleet storm had stopped, but the night air was cold-bitter cold for North Carolina. Some passengers climbed out and up the sleet-crusted embankments, but most stayed in the train. Two southbound freight trains screeched to a halt behind the wreck. One man had been killed...
...lack of interest is due mainly to U.S. distaste for sitting outdoors in wintry winds and sleet (in Europe fans rarely sit down during a game). The comparative handful of U.S. enthusiasts who follow the sport through its September-to-June season are mostly American-born citizens of foreign parentage who inherited their passion for the fast & furious game. Although U.S. attendance is far below the standard of other countries, U.S. pros are not. One U.S. star who can stand up to any of the world's Internationalists is Big Bill Gonsalves, a Portuguese-American who plays inside-right...