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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Air Force returned to Germany last week. Target: Emden's oft-bombed U-boat yards. As usual, the exact effects on the bomb target were unknown. But the effect on the Luftwaffe was terrific: some 500 Fortresses and Liberators shot down 117 German fighters; escorting U.S. fighters shot down 21 more. U.S. loss: 17 bombers, three fighters...
...Brooklyn ($2.75) sold 460,000 copies in four months, Ilka Chase (In Bed We Cry, $2.50), Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls, $2.50), Helen Howe (The Whole Heart, $2.50), Allan Seager (Equinox, $2.75). Notable among the second group were Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, $3) and Christine Weston, who with two unknown novels to her all but unknown literary credit, turned out Indigo ($2.50), which reviewers compared with E. M. Forster's A Passage to India...
...Tennessee, Boss Ed Crump of Memphis likewise was hoping for a medical discharge for an old-line Crumpet, Captain Andrew T. ("Tip") Taylor Jr., 32, wounded in the foot in Italy. Tip Taylor, who has held Crump-given jobs as legislator, judge, minor state officeholder, but is a political unknown, was regarded as likely to be Crumped up for Governor...
...Pacific powers expect to wage their war without the present help of Russia. Joseph Stalin is carefully staying out of the Pacific war. But the atmosphere at Teheran could hardly have been so cordial if the Pacific decisions had been unknown or unpleasant...
Furthermore the U.S. press, that had long ago submitted to the yoke of voluntary censorship, was getting quite used to it. The conference ended, the conferees moved on-Chiang back to China, Roosevelt and Churchill to an "unknown destination" to meet Joseph Stalin. And in Washington on Tuesday morning, U.S. newsmen met with Presidential Secretary Steve Early to get the official communiqué about the meeting and the conferees' decision to whittle from Japan the empire it had been accumulating by force and guile since...