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...merely a dream of men of good will, the only alternative was to try to pry the Reds off China's lifelines. Nanking had few illusions about that job. U.S. military observers had repeatedly told Chiang Kai-shek and his generals that the odds were heavily against a clean-cut Government victory. But responsible Nanking leaders (not merely reactionaries) saw no alternatives, except 1) continued stalemate accompanied by economic stagnation and further loss of popular support, or 2) coalition, which to them really meant postponing the war until the Reds were in a stronger position...
Raymond Mathieu, 22, clean-cut, bespectacled law student: "I was brought up with Socialist ideas, my family prepared the groundwork. I joined the Communist Party because it's dynamic...
...Birmingham and other C.I.O. strong spots, he was well behind. But when the tally came in from rural areas (where he had soft-pedaled his P.A.C. support), "Big Jim" spurted ahead. At the finish he was well in front of Handy Ellis, but not far enough for a clean-cut victory. Thoroughly frightened, Alabama's professionals rallied around Ellis for a slugging run-off primary battle with the lone giant...
...technical achievements of modern photography. His chief contribution is the incredible enlargements, which lost nothing in the blowing-up process. Working with a picked staff of technicians, Steichen had the negatives enlarged to Herculean proportions, capturing minute details with great clarity. Example: a huge shot of carefree, clean-cut Navy fledglings, coming from mess (see cut...
Adding up the evidence, General Eisenhower in a letter to President Roosevelt expressed his opinion that there would never be a "clean-cut military surrender" in the west (see U.S. AT WAR). On some sectors last week, in fact, the Germans were still full of fight. They fought hard for the north, to keep the Allies away from the ports; for the south, to keep them away from the Alpine bastion; and for the cut-off Ruhr, which, though its industries were useless, had become a pocket of strategic value (see below...