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...Cape Town last week rattled a troop train bound for Sonderwater Camp, 1,100 miles away. It was packed tight with mulatto soldiers and most of them were full of high spirits soaked up in Cape Town's cheap Jim Crow bars...
...rumble of gunfire was heard in Switzerland. The Fighting French, in contact with French underground workers, reported 500 Germans killed throughout France last week. Saboteurs blew up a troop train near Dijon, killed 250. In Lyon a German detachment was ambushed and scattered with hand grenades. Bombs killed 23 Nazi officers at a Lille cafe. For the fifth time since 1941, an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate the arch-collaborationist Marcel...
...Department message to a dead soldier's mother; Ulysses' & friends' raid on a forbidden apricot tree; the pursuit of Tom Spangler by a rich young pretty (Marsha Hunt); Bess and her girl friend picking up three lonely soldiers; Marcus playing hymns on his concertina in a troop train. The sum total of these screen adventures never quite attains the soaring enthusiasm of Saroyan's novel, and some of the preaching is hard to take. Yet at its best The Human Comedy is immensely moving. Even its preaching sometimes achieves an eloquence that gives the picture...
LONDON--Adolf Hitler in his first public speech in four and one-half months said today that the Russian front crisis had been overcome, that the front had been stabilized, that troop furloughs had been resumed and that measures had been started "which will guaranteee for fourthcoming months success to final victory...
...officer or civilian can write for Yank. Its staff consists exclusively of Army enlisted men plus two sailors and a marine sergeant. Every one has endured the tortures of basic training and most of them take their turn at an overseas front covering troop life and action for Yank...