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...first week of the great push, five major Nazi strongholds fell: after Vitebsk (which had withstood two fierce Red assaults in the past year), Orsha, Mogilev, Bobruisk, Zhlobin. Nothing like this, in so short a time, had ever happened to the Wehrmacht before...
Rise Ahead? Both markets withstood the first shock of Dday, just as both had tumbled at the Fall of France in 1940. But otherwise, each had its own unfathomable methods of deciding whether news was good or bad. Typically, while the Japs were lopping off the Malay States and Singapore in early 1942, the New York market tumbled. The London market declined, but rallied quickly. And percentag-wise, it has climbed far higher than has New York...
...battalion in Italy made a gallant and determined stand against the Germans from a cave on the rocky road that runs north from Anzio. Cut off from supplies and fighting for a week without replacements, the battalion, in the words of New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart, "withstood the cruelest pressure any American unit has been called upon to face in this...
...days last fall, wiry, greying Colonel Gurtiev held the "Barricades" factory in Stalingrad. His division repulsed 117 tank and infantry attacks. It withstood 80 hours of steady pounding by German artillery. FT a total of 320 hours the Luftwaffe bombed it. Watching the flames shrouding 'the tortured factory, anxious men elsewhere in Stalingrad said: "Stepan Gurtiev, that's the man for you." Of his 50 years, Gurtiev had spent 28 in the army. His men loved him, but feared him too, for "Tovarish Commander" tolerated no flaws in training, discipline or valor...
With Ben Bates in charge, the Murray Hill withstood all the onslaughts of time. Time & again Ben Bates turned down fabulous offers for his property. The guests stayed on until they died, one even dropping off peacefully while sitting in one of the lobby's overstuffed chairs. Occasionally the famous dropped in again: a porter recalls shining Warren Harding's shoes; Alf Landon took the Cleveland suite when he came to Manhattan in the 1936 campaign...