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General Rodion Malinovsky's Army splashed into Kherson and on toward Nikolayev after a spectacular overnight thrust. In the flooded plain, the cavalry bore the brunt of battle. Shrewdly, Malinovsky sent a myriad of raiding units-a tank or two, tommy gunners, horsemen-into the steppe to sow panic. They did their job well: Moscow said nowhere was chaos greater than in this sector...
...Little laboratory, just to show it could be done, once made a "silk" purse out of a sow...
...Record. Earlier, Wendell Willkie faced 100 Missouri G.O.P. bigwigs and businessmen at a spark-charged luncheon in St. Louis' Hotel Jefferson. One Missourian came out mumbling: "He tore into us like a biting sow." For Willkie had said to the big men from Missouri...
...this angry gesture the Germans found time. They also found time to sow mines with a generous hand. Cautious Red sappers, one Soviet Union officer reported, gingerly disconnected booby traps from chimney pots, sacks of potatoes, haystacks, fresh loaves of bread-even from crying infants. But the mines did not delay the Red Army long, and the Germans had to abandon many of their supply dumps. Food and ammunition by the trainload fell into Russian hands. On a single airfield in the south the Reds captured 19 undamaged planes. Near Bryansk, they seized land mines stacked in Teutonically neat mounds...
California's Turkish-born Jean Varda, 49, is a roaring abstractionist. "I can produce at terrific speed," he announces. "I am at the height of my vision. I produce like a queen bee, like a queen ant, like a sow...