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...combat zones. The experimenters from the staffs of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard forest, Biological Laboratories, and Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research have compiled figures on the "lasting period of cut foliage." Heretofore, the time in which this camouflage material would wilt in the field was unknown by any authorities...
...beaches for an amphibious invasion. Even when troops arrived, the defenses were still very hard: Jap resistance to the landings was ferocious, the cost in U.S. lives high. The Marshalls, held by the Japs for a quarter of a century, for years jealously guarded from alien visitors, were an unknown quantity. Involved this week was probably the greatest sea and air force the U.S. has yet concentrated on any Pacific objectives...
...catch is that the Allies cannot be sure that they have complete information about Germany's forces (at least 300 well-trained, well-equipped, well-led divisions of German troops, perhaps 100 "satellite" divisions of variable quality and fighting spirit). Allied staffmen, planning invasion, must assume that an unknown number of "hidden reserves" is available to Field Marshal Erwin ("The Fox") Rommel, recently appointed to direct the overall defenses of Europe, and to Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, apparently still commander in the threatened west...
...heavy-bomber crews came back from the hard-fought raid on Oschersleben (TIME, Jan. 24) full of admiration for the daring of an unknown fighter pilot - a U.S. airman in a Mustang who took on singlehanded a formation of 30 Nazi fighter planes...
Genial, strapping Robert Emmet Hannegan, 40, is almost unknown in national politics. Son of a St. Louis police captain, Hannegan played football, basketball and baseball at Jesuit St. Louis University (1921-25), followed this with three years of pro football and minor-league baseball. In 1934, after years of paddling around the precincts, he rose to be chairman of St. Louis' Democratic Committee and co-boss, with barrel-chested Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann, of St. Louis' tough, brassy Democratic machine...