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General Joseph Stilwell's shock columns were still at-not in-Myitkyina. With the prize almost within their grasp, they had stalled. One reason: the Japanese had quickly improvised a stout resistance. Another: torrential rains and monsoon winds had blunted the attack...
...blue-bound, looseleaf "Memo for Company Instruction," the German High Command announced that every German family must average four children. Reason: "Every stout boy born in 1943 can become a brave soldier...
...little Paul Joseph Goebbels could fool the people no longer. Though they showed no sign of crackup to the outside world, though they knew their army and even, perhaps, the vestiges of their surface navy, would put up a good stout fight, it was not so simple as all that...
...latest stout-heart to brave the business bogey of prefabricated housing is U.S. Steel Corp.'s dynamic, hardheaded president, Ben Fairless. Big Steel, which has never had any direct contact with the ultimate consumer, last week announced the purchase of a controlling interest in the Gunnison Housing Corp. of New Albany...
...latest ideas in landscape gardening. "I don't propose to do much," Sir George would say casually, "just a sheet of water and a line of statues." He also liked practical jokes, if he was not the victim. Once he arranged a collapsible Chippendale chair for a stout alderman, then accidentally sat on it himself. When Osbert laughed, Sir George reproved him sternly: "I might have most seriously injured my back...