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...second attack was made on the monastery hill (from the right) after a two-day bombing of the abbey. But the attackers never quite gained the summit. Meantime, after many days of house-to-house fighting, U.S. troops had taken only a third of the town of Cassino...
...smearcast, grinned like happy pseudo-warriors. Winchell: "Let's get together and tell some more lies about each other." Dies: "I'd have to go some to get even." Prime Minister Churchill, General Eisenhower and Lieut. General Omar Bradley took part in a shooting match during a two-day inspection of invasion troops. They whanged away with a Tommy gun and a .45-caliber pistol (the Prime Minister also tried out a rocket gun), settled down to a match with a rifle. Their average score...
...distrust. Cried a caustic, Conservative M.P. : The Prime Minister is "a Charlie McCarthy for Stalin. . . ." Such complainants failed to grasp the salient fact of Churchill's speech: to the. best of his vast abilities, Tory Churchill was fighting defensively for Britain. At the end of a restive, two-day debate, Anthony Eden completed the maneuvers which his chief had begun. Like Churchill, the Foreign Secretary carefully retraced the give-&-take of Allied moves in Europe...
...Claridge Hotel, Atlantic City's newest and tallest, an unprecedented two-day bull session took place last week. Business, labor and agriculture, as represented by 53 delegates out of the top drawer of 16 national organizations, met to thrash out, in closed session, an "area of agreement" on national postwar policies...
...foreign wools stored in U.S. warehouses. Despite the suggestion of some of the more feverish U.S. woolgrowers that the enormous stock be tossed into the sea in a modern version of the Boston Tea Party the liquidation was conducted along orthodox lines. With great dignity N.W.M.C. held a two-day auction in Boston, sold 23 million Ib. of wool at prices below the cost of homegrown wools. In Salt Lake City, the National Wool Growers Association was grimly mum. In San Antonio, the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association bleated: "The trade is taking these wools in preference to ours...