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Charles Austin Beard, who looks like the American bald eagle, has made historical scholarship a springboard to a life of heady and exhilarating controversy. The Republic is the latest round of the argument. It will also go a long way to end the notion that, as a historian, Charles A. Beard is an economic determinist and nothing else...
...from Italy. But from ports on the peninsula's west coast and from newly won Sardinia and Corsica (see p. 78), the Allies might strive for a bridgehead at theRhone's mouth, thereby begin the liberation of France and a march to the Rhine. >Italy is a springboard to the Balkans, where the passes and valleys, although few and difficult, lead to the vital Danube basin, a possible junction with the Red Army, and the shaky Nazi back door. Last week Allied sea power, in the form of a flotilla of torpedo boats, raided Albanian waters, exchanged fire...
...fighting, hundreds of Germans lay dead, all the way from southern Bonifacio to northern St. Florent. The Nazis lost the port and capital Ajaccio, began disordered retreat to Bastia. All but won for the Allies was an island which offers: 1) five naval ports; 2) three airports; 3) another springboard for invasion...
...shift in emphasis came about be cause most Broadway columnists secretly yearn for the dignity that goes with straight news columning, and have used the war as a springboard for a leap into general punditry. And, trendwise as they are, all realize that mischievous chitchat is no commodity to market in wartime...
Married. Marjorie Gestring, 19, blonde & beautiful diving champion (Olympics springboard winner at 13); and Edward Harrison Carter, 21-year-old U.C.L.A. student; in Los Angeles...