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This week, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., publisher of a newspaper that is now considered one of the nation's half-dozen best, invited his 1,152 staff members, and about a hundred Post-Dispatch alumni, to come to his 60th birthday party (champagne, breast of chicken, speeches...
Meanwhile the B-29s picked a new target on Japan and (by Jap account) followed a new roundabout course to reach the Tokyo area. About 100 of the Superfortresses took as their target the huge Nakajima Ota aircraft factory, 40 miles northwest of the capital. A half-dozen major buildings were splattered with bomb bursts. While the attack was going on, Japan's central island of Honshu shuddered also from a natural earthquake...
...glacial weather Dietrich peels off a half-dozen layers of G.I. greatcoats and woolies, usually slips on a gold-spangled white chiffon evening dress. She has learned not to stand too near the mike: it broadcasts her chattering teeth...
...Fighting Lady (U.S. Navy-20th Century-Fox) is the fiercely beautiful and thrilling color record of an aircraft carrier's career from her launching through her first half-dozen engagements.* It was shot during the past couple of years by a crew of six enlisted men, coached by famed photographer Captain Edward Steichen, and directed by Lieut. Commander Dwight Long. Their combined mileage was cut to its present 7,500 feet and 60 minutes by Fox's Louis de Rochemont, first producer of the MARCH OF TIME, whose first Hollywood film this is. John Stuart Martin, formerly...
...north, pushing slowly south on a half-dozen sectors, the First Army cut the road between Saint-Vith and Laroche-leaving only one main road out of the salient's western end. A German regimental commander, who saw his outfit hacked to pieces by the 82nd Airborne, drew his Luger and shot himself dead...