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Some cinemaddicts disturbed by the gap between the seriousness of the subject matter and this somewhat sorority-house treatment of it, may feel as if they had been brained with a powder puff...
...Voronov became boss of Red artillery. This was 1937-the year of the great Army purge, of unease and turbulence. Mikhail Tukhachevsky had been "liquidated," and his death left a vacuum in leadership and military thought. Unostentatiously, Voronov moved into the gap. He tightened discipline, increased the number of artillery schools, devised a new system of training, opened special schools for cannon-struck youngsters...
Down Thrust. Instead of pressing the dagger westward, into old Poland, Zhukov turned the point south. Twelve German divisions-four of them armored-were swept aside, a 120-mile gap was torn open, gains of 35 miles were made by the third morning. Early this week Zhukov's men stood only 20 miles from the key German base of Tarnopol, in prewar Poland; only 30 miles from Rumania's border...
...retain his 21-year-old job as Veterans Administrator. The General is not quite what Bernard Baruch prescribed in his Reconversion Report, "of such outstanding caliber as to command the immediate confidence of the country," but he is an iron-willed, Army-trained administrator of the Old School. The gap between their social philosophies is at least as wide as the difference between their ages (21 years...
...admitted that a southern China port must be opened before the armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek can be rearmed. But "Vinegar Joe," who probably knows China better than any brasshat in New Delhi, stoutly held that the "Hump" air route and the Ledo Road can fill the immediate gap in China's desperate needs, thus fit into the general Asia strategy...