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Barney Darnton did not cover World War I because he fought it in France with the A.E.F.'s Red Arrow Division-at the battles of the Oise-Aisne, the Meuse-Argonne, and the attack on the Kriemhilde-Stellung Line. A native of Adrian, Mich., Barney Darnton started his press career on the Sandusky (Mich.) Herald a few years after the Armistice, progressed through the Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Bulletin and Ledger, and the New York Post, to city editor of the A.P.'s New York Bureau. He was already a corking good newspaperman when he went to work...
...tended to crack. Sent to the rear, Colonel Lossberg proceeded to construct a new kind of major fortification, based on zonal defense. He built what the Allies called the Hindenburg Line. It was not Hindenburg's and it was not a line. The Germans called it the Siegfried Stellung (Siegfried Position...
...Stuff. Last week the British and French were again up against a Siegfried Stellung (see p. 28).* Four hundred and fifty miles long, it begins at the point where the Rhine enters The Netherlands, parallels the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg frontiers about eight miles behind the Our, Sauer and Moselle Rivers, then skirts the Saar to the French border, then turns west and south along the Rhine and through the Black Forest until it reaches the Swiss frontier at Lake of Constance (see map). It has been under construction for three years and at one time last spring half...
...Westwall section 100 miles east-west behind the Saar Valley, along which the Allies were feeling for a soft spot, is one of the newest. Behind it valleys run into the Rhine from the North and East. But no military observer expected any immediate smashing of the Siegfried Stellung, 1939 style...
...Andrew; Historical Sketch of the Finances and Financial Policy of Massachusetts, by Professor C. J. Bullock; The English Classical School of Political Economy, by Professor T. N. Carver; The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist, Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick, Travellers' English, by Professor G. P. Baker; Die Stellung Amerikas sur Deutschen Kunst, by Professor K. Francke; Four Obscure Allusions in Herdu, by Professor W. G. Howard; An Introduction to Vulgar Latin, by Professor C. H. Grandgent...