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...Kursk and Kharkov-the starting points of their summer drive-and retain a line swerving southeastward to Rostov, they would still have the main arteries of their principal supply system and most of the industrially rich Donets basin. Fortnight ago, the Red Army seemed to have a chance to threaten this "last line." This week, after they completed the repossession of Voronezh and swept westward, the Russians were actually attacking the outer bastions of that line near Kursk and Belgorod. To the south, beyond Kharkov, the Germans' maximum hope was to hold a bulge protecting that key city...
With every team in the circuit facing action this week, the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League is moving headlong into a race which gives promise of being its most exciting in a full decade. At this early point in the season, Penn and Princeton are both unbeaten and threaten to make it rough going for Dartmouth...
Leclerc Over the Desert. Driving northward from interior Africa (the Chad) to threaten Rommel's inner flank was a Fighting French column under one of the heroes of the De Gaullist forces. He was a young Frenchman who was wounded in 1940, twice escaped from the Germans, finally made his way to Fighting French territory in Africa and fought under the nom de guerre of Brigadier General "Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south...
Farther to the south, where the footing was firmer, French troops and mechanized U.S. units advanced toward the exotic holy Moslem city of Kairouan. Seizure of Kairouan would threaten Axis communication lines along the whole Tunisian east coast. In the an, the Allies "accounted for two to one in individual combat," Mr. Stimson said. At week's end, able to get in the air again after a stretch of bad weather which had grounded them, Flying Fortresses escorted by P-38s and P-405 bombed Bizerte and Sfax. The P-40s were Warhawks, newest version of the Hawks (others...
...floor up to platforms above each basket (as shown in the accompanying picture) will not only prove a boon to the actual playing of the game, but will also serve to stimulate spectator interest, something which the coach considers of primary importance at a time when war cloud threaten to eclipse all progress in competitive athletics. "It's well worth a fair trial," brown stated, "and while basketball is still on its feet we should do everything possible to encourage progress in the game...