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...During the reorganization of the 32nd Division in 1947, I recruited Marshfield's two fine batteries of field artillery for the 120th F.A. Bn., and in just 1½ hours! You made no mistake in your fine report on General Abrams. As a staff officer in the 4th Armored, I saw the devastation he wreaked on German armor with the 37th Tank. Sleep well, America...
...bridgehead was established by the 329th Infantry on April 13 at Barby. The bridgehead made at Magdeburg by the 2nd Armored Division on April 12 was knocked back by German armor. The 329th bridgehead was severely counterattacked for three days but held firm, partly because we had rafted all our antitank guns across the Elbe...
...most vigorous, its treatment varies dramatically from artist to artist. William Glackens' Nude with Apple is in standard studio pose-a composition of color rather than a slice of life. John Sloan, realist though he was, thought most painted nudes pornographic, concealed his in a kind of armor because "works of art are made of wood and bronze and oil paint, not flesh and blood...
...washday wonder of Britain is a youthful appliance maker who has convinced British housewives that his product is a knight in shining armor, ready to rescue them from drudgery-on the installment plan. "All women in England want carefree kitchens as near to the Americans' as possible," says John Bloom, 29-and he has got rich quick by giving them what they want. In just three years Bloom has captured 12% of Britain's washing-machine market by borrowing U.S. mass production methods, of showing a fine disregard for conservative British business habits and a finer knack...
...sputtering motorcycles to high-horsepower sports cars, Von Trips was just a few points away from winning a world championship in the sport he loved-Grand Prix auto racing, the swift and dangerous pastime that binds its practitioners to a peculiar, almost chivalric code. With goggles and helmets for armor, with throaty, low-slung cars for mounts, they scorch the race courses of Europe and the Americas in dedicated pursuit of their elusive Holy Grail-which is always one more victory. Death is always at hand. "In every race," said Von Trips, "we are close to the limit. We must...