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Casualties. Neither side detailed its casualties.* Russian communiqués told of wiping out detachments of 150 to 300 Germans, destroying a half-dozen tanks, infinitesimal losses in a battle involving more than a million men and great masses of war equipment. In fact, the communiqués from Moscow notably failed to bear out the non-military reports of mountainous German losses. Perhaps those who wrote the communiqués did not yet have an overall view; perhaps they were not ready to tell the full story...
...Bridgehouse Prison, Powell's grilling filled a half-dozen notebooks. Japanese, who take for granted their own correspondents are spies, refused to believe he was not one. In Cell No. 5, a 12-by-18-ft. cage with six-inch bars, he was dumped among 40 prisoners-consumptives, lepers, syphilitics, even a few Japanese. Eaten alive by lice, they tried to keep warm by crowding five or six together under one filthy blanket. Rations were rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor...
Five minutes later, red-faced Brooks called up the other half-dozen stations on the forest network, explained that the bombardiers had turned out to be two Negro soldiers at Fort Huachuca, twenty miles away, sashaying mellowly across the parade ground harnessed with a couple of walky-talkies...
...complete. Stanley K. Leonard, a graduate student who has run the midyear and final examinations for the past three years, will be in charge of the whole organization. He stated yesterday that he was using between 25 and 30 men in the Hall itself, and would need an additional half-dozen to sort out the course cards later...
...argument: Let Army & Navy continue to earmark college undergraduates (some 160,000 a year) for deferment under the present half-dozen college training plans. But let the armed services recognize that these plans are only half measures. As yet, the services take no account of the 400,000 high-school graduates each year who don't go on to college, in most cases because they can't afford...