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Crossing the Chin and Naga Hills, three Japanese columns of uncertain strength were converging on Imphal, which lies just a little to the east of the lateral railroad that extends 250 miles to Ledo-the supply route for General Stilwell's forces advancing into northern Burma and for the goods that are shipped over the Hump by air to China. If the Japanese should take Imphal-last week they were only 30 miles away-they would be within reach of the railroad through which flow the supplies for both Stilwell and China...
...London soccer game Princess Elizabeth smiled but, next to her, General Sir Bernard Montgomery glowered. Royalty, as usual, was holding its chin up, but the mood of Britons was not spririglike. Churchill had said what they thought: "The task is heavy, the toil is long, the trial will be severe." Bombs on London were a thumping reminder of how severe the trial had already become...
...taller than 5 ft. 7 in., but they have been got into walloping condition by tall, dark Coach Louis Weintraub, who toured Japan with Michigan's championship basketball team in 1929. He calls his squad the "Commando Class" and puts it through such daily musts as 20 chin-ups, 75 pushups, 30 dips on the parallel bars and a 20-ft. pole climb in less than ten seconds without using the legs...
...raid outside Bizerte. . . ." Some things have been especially diffi cult for her. One ("The worst moment I've ever had in my life") happened at a hospital in Kairouan. Bob Hope asked her to sing for a young pilot in bed with a sheet tucked up to his chin. He suggested Night and Day or That Old Black Magic...
...boys who partook of matrimony last week and brought back their subsequent weekend entertainment with them. For myself, after four sleepless nights on a furlough ticket, mid bawling offspring, and with special attention to one dear three-year-old, name of Ralphy, who rode backwards in the seat ahead, chin hung over the back, drippin' orange juice, and with the most unexplainable silly grin on his face for a solid 600 miles, I will be content to go on running my chances at the Touraine with the multitude...