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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Adolf Hitler gazed at the monument, then walked slowly down the avenue 200 yards to the clearing. He wore a double-breasted, grey field uniform with the Iron Cross hanging from his left breast pocket. Behind him walked the six highest officials of the German Third Reich: Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring in the blue uniform of the Air Force, his Field Marshal's baton in his right hand; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces, his cap cocked jauntily on one side; Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch in field grey; Grand Admiral...
...last week's tournament, run on a point basis like a track meet, the University of Michigan finished first with 26 points. Williams was second with 25, University of Detroit third with 24. Highest individual scorer was Williams' Bill Watson. He won all his club's points: first in spot-landing from 500 ft., second in bomb-dropping, third in spot-landing from...
...prestige with the Brazilian Army grows with each new success in Europe. Military missions go back & forth between Rio and Berlin; Berlin courts Army, Navy and Air Corps heads with assiduity. Last April. War Minister Dutra and Chief of Staff Góes Monteiro were given Germany's highest decoration awarded to foreigners, the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, and officers down to the rank of colonel were decorated. In a country with 75% illiteracy and a dictatorship from above, one Dutra or Góes Monteiro is worth 100,000 gauchos...
...Climbed to the highest point in three years...
...ever since, The Southern Review has been steadily outranging its merely regional beginning. Its appropriation, that Yould scarcely pay a first-rate football coach, has been large enough to pay the highest rates (1? a word for prose, 35? a line for poetry) offered by any similar magazine in the U. S. Its managing editors, bespectacled Brooks and redheaded Warren, have sought and printed not only the best Southern writing but the finest prose & poetry that U. S. writers of all sections could produce...