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...tougher. The Germans bat tled the First Army from buildings, tow ers, tunnels, vaults. They fought viciously until their plight was hopeless, then sur rendered mildly. They were found hiding in brick kilns and under beds. One group, chased out of an electric plant, ran to an apartment house next door and resumed the battle there. Four Germans were captured in a pillbox on the sixth floor of a paper mill...
Halifax fishermen were in luck the moment the tow line snapped. Driven by the wind, the disabled U.S. Liberty ship drifted helplessly away from the tug which was towing her into port. She slid past the islands which ring Halifax's outer harbor, grounded firmly on Lobster Claw Ledge. Rocks under the sea smashed her hull. She lay broken near the land, her mid decks awash...
...year-old Arab girl had no business to be still alive : when Captain W. W. Wilson of the Royal Army Medical Corps first saw her, she had been shot in the abdomen eight days before and the wide wound, leaking intestinal contents, was untended except for a packing of tow, a dressing of mud and torn clothing. Ordinarily, such an untreated wound means peritonitis (infection of the abdominal lining) and almost inevitable death. Yet the girl had not even a fever...
...lost to Tech's Gordon Chun, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, while Moe Levin of the Crimson trounced Tom Henson, 6-2, 6-2. Jack Hugus of M.I.T. defeated Milt Stearns, 6-3, 6-3, and Crimson man Bob Rayle lost to Bruce Mayer, 6-2, 6-0. Tow Ellis and Bill Mayleas of Harvard evened up the singles by defeating Roy Haddox and Tom Cummings, 6-1, 6-2, and 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, respectively...
When finally Brandt got hold, the sub slowly moved out of range. It took an hour to do it without drowning the tow: as it was, Brandt's head was under water a good half of the time. Then the submarine surfaced at last and took him aboard. Airman Brandt was grateful but "a little beat...