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...catch is that the Allies cannot be sure that they have complete information about Germany's forces (at least 300 well-trained, well-equipped, well-led divisions of German troops, perhaps 100 "satellite" divisions of variable quality and fighting spirit). Allied staffmen, planning invasion, must assume that an unknown number of "hidden reserves" is available to Field Marshal Erwin ("The Fox") Rommel, recently appointed to direct the overall defenses of Europe, and to Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, apparently still commander in the threatened west...
...Foot. After he had decorated General Mongomery last week, blue-eyed, bald General Eisenhower returned to his headquarters, to pore over planners' plans, to check over staffmen's work...
...make the film (and others to come) Disney took 15 of his staffmen on a three-month, 20,000-mile tour of South America. They hobnobbed with artists and musicians, soaked up so much local color that when Saludos appeared, South Americans instantly recognized themselves. He constructed the character of Joe Carioca from thousands of papagaio (parrot) jokes Brazilians told...
...first U.S. radio staffmen to broadcast regularly over the Soviet radio was back home last week and talking last week. CBS's dark, thin Larry Lesueur, 33, rolled into Russia via Archangel a year ago. Onetime United Press reporter, he had covered the R.A.F. in France from war's outbreak through Dunkirk, the London blitz as apprentice to CBS's Edward R. Murrow. In talking about Russian radio Lesueur told a lot about Russia...
...women for overseas service with task forces. Its students include lawyers, teachers, brokers, the father of a pilot who died diving his plane into a Japanese transport. They get instruction for all sorts of odd jobs which the Red Cross now performs for the armed forces: e.g., its staffmen must know accounting, to keep the books for field units; must know how to perform such good deeds as arranging an operation for a soldier's ailing mother, or getting a job for his jobless father...