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...four beaches between the Orne and the Vire that the man-toman battle was fought in most savage fury. On Sword, Juno and Gold beaches, British and Canadian troops hurled in an astonishing force of "specialized armor" -mine-clearing tanks, pillbox-blasting tanks, ditch-filling tanks, flamethrowing tanks-but the German 716th Infantry Division, in fortified seaside hotels and summer villas, fought back viciously, inflicting 4,000 casualties...
Look Out, Jock. Sheean got to Paris just before the Nazis. He saw the confusion that centered around Helene de Portes, Premier Reynaud's mistress, whom Sheean believes to have been the shrewish organizer of defeat. In Britain, Sheean walked past the workmen stringing barbed vire around the Houses of Parliament. "So it's come to this, has it?" said Lady Diana Cooper, "in that curiously husky voice;" Inside Parliament Sheean heard history made by "a colorless voice." It was Clement Attlee reading the one-sentence law which declared that for the duration all persons and property were...
...seems academic for the present because none of the com pany's foreign agreements in which the Justice Department is most interested are operative as long as the war lasts. Finally, burden of defending the suit will probably fall hardest on the busiest man in Bendix, Charles Marcus, vire president in charge of engineering, who only recently returned from England armed with new ideas for improving the company's equipment. According to the company: "These must all be neglected while Mr. Marcus defends himself and the company for the second time in an anti-trust proceeding now brought...
...word "vaudeville" comes from the French Van de Vire-the valley of Normandy's Vire River, where "sprightly songs and ballads were sung...
fair vire Mary...
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