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...greater part of the land fighting in the Pacific last week was being done by the Australians. Mostly they inched forward in bitter, forgotten little battles against a scattered but formidable array of Japs (best conservative guesstimate: 136,000-see map) bypassed in the westward sweep of the main battle. But the Aussies were punching ahead on new battlegrounds...
...Japan's big business is not in any way interested in anything short of a total victory." Tokyo's motor transport was drafted for defense. Writers were enlisted for home-front propaganda. Cried Radio Tokyo: "The sooner the enemy comes, the better for us, for our battle array is complete...
...Independence, Bess Truman, like millions of other U.S. women, faced a servant problem. Vietta Garr, Negro cook who had worked 16 years for the Trumans, is now back of the counter in a Kansas City drugstore. Surveying her array of mechanical aids to soda-jerking, Vietta confessed that she is dubious about returning to what will be the summer White House: "I'm sort of on the outs with the cooking. I'm fountain manager now, and you don't give up that kind of a job without thinking it over. I think an awful...
Already there are signs of Nazi underground activity. Salzburg streets throng with a motley array of hikers in lederhosen and rucksacks, sunburned Wehrmachters still wearing parts of uniforms, soldiers in Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav, Italian and other uniforms with doubtful political loyalties-a mélange which has made good hunting for the Army's Counterintelligence Corps. To deal with such a situation requires both a firm, coherent policy and a well-directed administration. So far we have lacked both...
Agnes DeMille has, however, put on a spectacular array of terpsichorean wizardry ranging from a classical rendition of a hornpipe to an example of modern dancing which is beyond doubt one of the best seen this season. Again the "Oklahoma" touch appears in Anabelle Lyon, who is a copy of Joan McCracken...