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...southeast, the 25th (Major General Charles L. Mullins) was probing toward Highway 5, on which there was heavy northbound enemy traffic. In a three-day battle, the "Tropic Lightnings," as the men of the 25th style themselves, took only half the town of San Manuel. The second half was not much easier-by-passed Japs held on for days...
When last week's cold wave sent temperatures to 18° below zero at Portland, Me., to 16° below at Binghamton, N.Y., the Association of American Railroads decided it was time for drastic action. With the approval of the Office of Defense Transportation, A.A.R. clamped a tight three-day embargo on all non-Government freight moving east of Lake Michigan and north of the Chesapeake and Ohio lines in Virginia...
...First Army had felt that pinch, which the Germans cleverly aggravated by hanging on to France's best ports until the bitter end. For weeks the First's artillery had had to hoard its shells. For one three-day period, General Hodges' headquarters mess had had no food but captured German rations...
...Mickey Rooney, 23, pint-sized cinemadolescent; and Betty Jane Rase, 18, blond, 5 ft. 7 in., Miss Birmingham of 1944, fifth placer in the 1944 Miss America competition; he for the second time; in Birmingham, Ala. Private Rooney wooed & won his beauty in a week, married her on a three-day pass, expected to ship overseas soon...
...their efforts to organize a militia, the whites and blacks of Carwell barricaded themselves inside the big plantation house. Marcus, Gideon's youngest son, was shot while trying to get help. Jeff was murdered after answering an appeal under truce to help some wounded Klansmen. In a brief three-day siege, the plantation house and all its contents were destroyed...