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...fiercest battles were fought near Krivoi Rog, in the heart of the Dnieper bend. This devastated iron center also protected a German escape corridor across the southern Ukraine. The capture of Krivoi Rog would culminate the lower Dnieper campaign, enabling the Red flood to roll southward, cut off perhaps a score of German divisions...
...fast columns closed in on the Dnieper's underbelly, one threatening to trap large German forces in the Dnieper bend, the other advancing toward the city of Kherson, formerly a big submarine-building base...
Editors, paid to give their public what it wants to read, still played the story for all it was worth. But by week's end the De Marigny trial alone marched on, side by side on Page One with the Russian Army in the Dnieper bend...
...muddy, determined Fifth inched forward, mopped up the hard knots of resistance. One day it trudged into steepled Capua, where Hannibal and his Carthaginians had wintered after slaughtering the Romans at Cannae. There Mark Clark's men stood in a strategic bend of the Volturno River. Across 200 yards of rushing water lay the German line. By week's end the Fifth had moved up to the Volturno on both sides of Capua, along a front stretching 40 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea. Patrols nudged across the stream, engaged the enemy in sharp skirmishes...
...Power. Football's Pantelleria, says Shaughnessy, was Notre Dame's 35-to-13 upset of Army in 1913. Described by a New York paper as "a team from South Bend, Ill.," Notre Dame uncorked the historic Dorais-to-Rockne passing combination for the first convincing demonstration that air power alone can overcome land strength. From the sidelines a lightweight halfback named Dwight Eisenhower watched 13 Irish passes whistle by the hopelessly confused West Pointers. That game was the beginning of a new kind of football...