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...Dewey had bridged the gap characteristically, organizing, organizing, organizing. Republican leaders, Senators, Congressmen, committeemen came to Albany in droves, state by state. Newsmen who covered him were bored to tears, but Republicans everywhere, although privately gloomy about his chances, were heartened by the stiffness of his mustached upper lip and cheered by his obvious determination to mobilize all the resources of the resurgent Republican Party...
...Bretton Woods proposals, they admit, might work in a stable, orderly world. But the postwar world will be neither stable nor orderly. Some countries will be heavily in debt, while others enjoy vast spendable resources. What they term the "delicate" Keynes-White mechanism is not designed to bridge the gap between these two extremes. As an alternative, the bankers advance the "key country approach." Most of the world's trade, they argue, is carried on in pounds and dollars. Therefore, the dollar-pound rate should first be stabilized, providing a nucleus to which other currencies could anchor at proper...
...Crimson booters opened the fall soccer season last Wednesday by taking the measure of a well-trained Medford High squad, 5 to 2. Star of the game was Roy Heisler, who notched all five goals for the Crimson. Heisler will leave tomorrow for the army, thus creating a big gap in McDonald's offensive. The squad that beat Medford was actually a combination of A and B team players...
...Germans may have had about 20 divisions available last week in the West Wall and its approaches, perhaps ten more that can get back from the Low Countries. Perhaps six or eight more succeeded in retiring from southern France to the Belfort Gap; and perhaps ten divisions were available from Himmler's reserve army...
...Iron Gate, where the Danube flows between 200-foot piles of sandstone, some of Tito's men battled to join Red armymen who had come from the Ukraine, through Bessarabia, through the Galati Gap, through the heart of Rumania at breakneck pace. To the east, General Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine Army was mopping up Nazi stragglers on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. To the north, General Rodion Malinovsky was stabbing through the Transylvanian Alps to the great plain of Hungary...