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...coming season, Coach Peterson is watching the squad closely. Among the candidates are free-stylers Darcy Curwen of Exeter, whose older brother, Jim, is a sprint star on the Varsity team, William Stires of Lehman High, Canton, Ohio, and Frank Gorman of University School, Cleveland. William Drucker, former New Trier Township High back-stroker, and Colin Houston of Exeter, a breastroker, are other aspirants for the '43 squad...
Hinge of the "door" was the Fifth Army commanded by the German Crown Prince Starting from the Trier-Saarbrtücken area (where fighting is most active this time), his course was through Luxembourg and Longwy in a short arc southwest to Verdun. The Fourth Army, under Duke Albrecht, was to swing in a wider arc through Luxembourg into the dense Ardennes forest, cross the Meuse and the Aisne northwest of the Crown Prince's Army, and sweep south toward Châlons. Other concentric arcs were mapped for the Third and Second Armies under Generals Hausen...
...French wire by anti-tank fire, the wreckage of 20 of them blocking the passage of heavier German tanks. German counterattacks in the Bienwald east of Bitche were evidently more successful. At the northwest end of the line, the French advance from Perl in the direction of Trier progressed yard by yard. Then, this week, along the 80-mile Rhine front from Lauterbourg to Basle, the guns of the Maginot Line and the Westwall thundered at each other the first shots in that sector since the war began. As this activity lengthened into the night of its first 24 hours...
...divisions (some 250,000 men) of the regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans executed with moderate success last week, less valuable field troops are used, and Allied observers reported streams of reinforcements flowing toward Trier at week's end. They looked like about six divisions, which would be no great diversion from the 70 (out of Germany's total of over 100 divisions) known to be on the Polish Front. All week official Berlin continued to pretend that all was quiet on the Western Front...
Clifford S. Goodman, Jr., Wilmette, Illinois--New Trier Township High School, Winnetka, Illinois...