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Once a Trouper. In South Bend, unthinking Harry Holubiak pastured his work horse, an oldtime circus performer, near a field where Navy recruits drilled to band music. Later a vet treated the horse for exhaustion...
...advance. But they were not enough to halt Marshal Fedor von Bock's creep through smashed, smoking ruins toward the heart of Stalingrad. As a new week started the Germans claimed they had reached a vital harbor section of the city which stretched 25 miles along the Volga bend; they won, lost, then won again a hill from which they shelled the heart of bomb-beaten Stalingrad...
Five rent-control cases, which went into special three-judge Federal courts because they involved constitutionality, have been fought through successfully by tough little Talbot Smith, OPA rent lawyer. Two of these cases were in South Bend, two in Mobile, one in Wichita-but though widely separated on the map, all the cases were curiously alike in their defense-arguing that the act delegated legislative powers to a Governmental agency which should be exercised specifically by Congress. OPA's Lawyer Brunson MacChesney, chief of the compliance section, thinks the similarity no coincidence, believes there exists an organized resistance...
...losses at least as heavy. The precise location of the battle line was not revealed by either Berlin or Moscow communiqués, but Moscow reported this week that fighting was going on "in Stalingrad." The heaviest pressure and steadiest German progress was from the southwest, toward the Volga bend directly below Stalingrad. There the Germans had lost as many as 60 tanks on a single sector, but slowly they thundered...
...Lincoln's death inspired Little Tad ("God bless the little orphan boy, a father's darling pride"), post-war scorn for the South jelled into the unwarranted Jeff in Petticoats. The absurd feminine posture of the late '60s, called the Grecian Bend, was ribbed in a song. So was the style of tasseled shoes...