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...Battle of Madrid" simmered down last week to a peevish interchange of inconsequent bombardments. The great Leftist offensive launched "to raise the Siege of Madrid" (TIME, July 26 et seq.) had been broken by the Rightists at Brunete and not a single structure stood last week in that shattered spearhead of the Madrid defenders' advance. As pretty, Polish Mile. Gerda Taro, 25, was taking pictures for LIFE and footage for the MARCH OF TIME of the retreat from Brunete she was killed...
...hurried to field headquarters. There, rubbing his hands with a satisfaction at least well simulated, General Franco remarked that the Spanish Leftists seemed to have committed the "almost unbelievable blunder" of persisting in efforts to hold Brunete with a large force, although the flanks of their advance to this spearhead had been so driven in by the Rightists that, in the orthodox military view, it had become untenable-a death trap...
...much the worst of it in daily dogfights, 21 Franco bombers escorted by 66 pursuit ships hurled 50 tons of bombs down upon a four-mile-square, area of the ten-mile-square advance Leftist positions, huge 200-lb. bombs gouging enormous craters, destroying the point of the Leftist spearhead. This week, grimly determined to follow up their advantage the Rightists reportedly massed 42,000 men on the Madrid front, another 80,000 in reserve. Newshawks were already beginning to talk in anticipation about the "Battle for Madrid...
...Spain's Foreign Legion. Last week Fortunato Manure was one of some 200 Italians, ranging in rank from privates up to a Lieutenant-Colonel, who were captured by Madrid's defenders in five days of furious strife which badly broke the point of the so-called "Italian Spearhead" thrusting at Madrid from the northeast on the Guadalajara front...
...Debrett (Britain's social register), The People, Passing Show, and John Bull. Editor-in-chief of every organ put out by Odhams is John Dunbar, a Scot with a rich brogue. Elias, who has never written a newspaper story in his life, is the firm's financial spearhead. His wealth is impossible to gauge for he never publishes a financial statement. Odhams ranks so high, however, that when Elias put out a big bond issue last year is was oversubscribed in five minutes...