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There was emotion, too, but of a different sort, in the hearts of the 11th Airborne Division as they dropped down on Atsugi, of the 4th Marines as they plunged ashore at Yokosuka, heavily laden with battle gear that was to be useless. This was the last beachhead, and they hit it standing up. There was no fight left in the enemy...
Forced to move from Peabody House into a more spacious suite in Dudley Hall two weeks ago, the Veterans' Guidance Center is now installed and operating at high gear...
This week, at the request of Yugoslavia, the U.S. Military Mission packed up and left. Next to leave is the Typhus Commission, because the Yugoslavs feel that the danger of epidemic is now over. Moving into high gear is UNRRA with a staff of 150, headed by a Russian. Most of the other members of the commission are Americans. The Yugoslavs would like 300,000 tons of materials monthly. What they are getting now will shortly be increased to 175,000 tons a month...
With complicated move and countermove, the four occupying powers settled down last week to the task of ruling conquered Germany. A few picked units of British and U.S. troops packed their gear and took off for Berlin, where they would help the Russians garrison the city...
...writers ("Most radio favorites are only mouths spawning the brain-roe of tired little men . . .") but was sourly suspicious of radio-born comedians: "A comedian who has had only radio knows only the reactions of transient mobs, who float from program to program posing as audiences, and tends to gear his antics [to] this moronic element, forgetting the millions of intelligent listeners...