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...Four R.A.F. aircraftsmen (ground crewmen) tugged and shoved at a Spitfire bogged in the sands of an African desert. When they finally freed the plane the South African pilot gunned his engine and took o f Then he noticed that the tail was heavy. In his cockpit mirror he saw the image of a wind-blown figure on the tail-no gremlin, but an aircraftsman who had not let go in time. The pilot quickly landed. Hopping from the fuselage, the aircraftsman respectfully asked whether the pilot was all right. The pilot returned the question. Said the aircraftsman: "The slip...
...first U.S. or British correspondent to eyewitness the Volga city's battered battlefields. How he got the break, Shapiro did not explain, but in his delayed and heavily-censored dispatches, datelined "With the Red Army on the Stalingrad Front," he predicted that Stalingrad would soon be entirely freed...
...Hollywood's ablest young character actor, George Sanders. Delicately he begins as the solid English bank-clerk husband, who suddenly is transformed into a callous wife-beating artist. And then Sanders has the picture to himself, for he storms through the following scenes with the biting venom of a freed tiger, trampling helter-skelter over lesser beings, tyrannizing those who are attracted to him, kicking away the happiness of those who happen to be in his way. Finally the human juggernaut comes to rest in the South Sea Islands, where its violent motion is dulled, and it lapses into Maugham...
...loyalties of Frenchmen who want to see their country freed were last week sadly tied in knots. Admiral Jean François Darlan, ex-Vichyite, was in the saddle in North Africa, with full, if only temporary, U.S. approval. General Henri Honoré Giraud, known hater of the Germans, was his subordinate commander. General Charles de Gaulle, the man who refused to admit the French surrender at Compiègne and founded the only recognized organization of free Frenchmen, was somewhere out in the cold, with no voice whatever in the proceedings hailed as the first step toward France...
Five days before British troops arrived in Tananarive the children were freed. Last week their tale was told. Fifty of them between 15 and 17-ten were girls-had banded together under a 19-year-old leader to form their own unit of the Fighting French. They had certificates of membership and secret meeting places. Theirs were the slogans scrawled at night, the stenciled angel, the Cross outlined in green on Poincaré Square. Of them their leader said: "They're good comrades-no one has ever given away a fellow member...