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...Alexander is the youngest full general in the British Army. He is also a favorite subject of army stories. At Dunkirk he showed some of the qualities of the U.S. Army's General Douglas MacArthur. When the remnants of the B.E.F. seemed to face destruction, Alexander donned his smartest breeches and finest boots, sat down to breakfast in a shell-shattered house, at a table with a spotless cloth, and calmly consumed Dundee marmalade...
Five years ago Pedro Ernesto was set free. Exiled temporarily to Minas Geraes, he returned, when things quieted down, to Rio and his own hospital and patients. He shunned politics. On his birthday last year the Candelaria church, Rio's biggest and smartest, sang masses for Pedro Ernesto at each of its nine altars. Today, in the vestibule of the Municipal Hall, stands a bust of him which slum mothers point out to their children, telling them that all they paid for Pedro Ernesto's services were small gifts of bananas...
...general counsel on Lend-Lease. He drafted the original Lend-Lease bill, has since helped administer it. He scrapes up supplies, gets them shipped as often as he can. A government career man since 1938, Oscar Cox has had many bosses in the Capital: they all call him "the smartest damn lawyer in Washington...
Meanwhile, Tolstoy's War and Peace, possibly the greatest of all war books, has sold 263,000 copies for Simon & Schuster, who reissued it in May on one of the year's smartest publishing hunches...
Thrice before, the Axis had struck eastward across North Africa, twice before the British had counter-driven to the west. Now for the fourth time the Axis attacked. From tank parks south of Derna, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Nazis' smartest desert general, sent his divisions toward the Allied post at Bir Hacheim south of Tobruk. While Italian tanks made a holding attack on the post and were beaten off by Free French defenders with a loss of 35 Axis machines, 250 German tanks made an end run clear around Bir Hacheim, veered north toward the coast and Tobruk...