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After romping home first in the Nashville Open, 19 strokes below par, the wasp-waisted Texan headed for Dallas. En route last week, he came down with flu, gobbled some sulfa pills, decided to play anyhow. Despite a 102° fever, he fired a 68 to tie for the first-round lead in the $10.000 Dallas Open. But next day, woozy from sulfa, he slumped to 74. After that he could not catch Sam Snead (lately recovered from a broken arm), Jug Mc-Spaden or Byron Nelson. Hogan finished fourth with a 3-under-par. In the longer...
...campaign for Guadalcanal was going from bad to worse (the Wasp had just been sunk), and Nimitz sent Halsey south. A month later, he named him Commander, South Pacific - and the spirits of fighting men throughout the area soared. For his effect on morale. Bull Halsey was worth a division of fast battle ships...
...Bottom. Fourteen months later, the Hornet was at the bottom of the ocean. So were the Lexington, the Yorktown and the Wasp. The Enterprise was at Pearl Harbor, recovering from a year's accumulation of battle wounds. There was only one U.S. carrier fit for actioa in the Pacific, the old Saratoga. Marc Mitscher, now a rear admiral, was sweating in open-necked khakis in a Dallas hut by the Lunga River on Guadalcanal, commanding land-based aircraft in the Solomons...
...Wasp and the Fire. Meanwhile, the Germans, kept up their diversionary offensive in Alsace-Lorraine. This show was commanded by a rough-&-tumble general named Hermann Balck, who had distinguished himself in the Nazi retreat up the Rhône valley in France, and who had been built up in German popular esteem as a successor to the late Erwin Rommel. When the U.S. Seventh Army held and shoved back the German bulge south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket...
This week Balck was thrusting with tanks and flamethrowers into the Seventh Army's Maginot Line positions near Haguenau. It seemed likely that these harassments would continue at least until the Ardennes situation was stabilized. To Eisenhower, Balck's offensive was like a wasp snarling around a man who is trying to put out a fire...