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...couldn't sleep a wink last night, Ma. because Tom Gaines and Huddy Futral were tuning up on their sweet potato and jug respectively for their part in he Hillbilly Band. That's why I'll have to knock it off now, Mom; I'm so tired. I hope I'll see you at the Commissioning. Until I do see you, then, Ma, I remain Your salty son, Murgatroyd...
...Italy, tough Allied troops pursued the beaten Germans northward, 70 miles above liberated Rome. After weeks of ominous quiet the long Russian front stirred. A major Red Army offensive in the north, to knock Finland out of the war, rolled through heavy defenses in a 15- to 25-mile surge reminiscent of the windup of the "Winter...
...Allies chose to attack in the most obvious area. They may and are still likely to attack elsewhere. One of these assaults may yet turn out to be the knock-out punch, but the size of the first attack this week in Normandy-on a front more than 100 miles long, from Cherbourg to Le Havre-gave the Germans good reason to believe that they had already seen the beginning of the Allies' main effort...
Mother Said Go! When underground workers are caught the Germans often torture them to make them talk. If it is a strong man, they have to torture him nearly to the death to get anything. They take off the fingernails with tongs, knock the men down and jump on their chests, emasculate them. Last winter my superior was caught. Other people in the underground said perhaps he would be tortured and tell the Gestapo my name. They said: "You had better stop working for at least six months...
...with a sense of comfort even religion cannot afford that I read in TIME (May 15) the fine article on "handsome, patrician Joseph Clark Grew." For so long you have described and accented the personal defects of politicians, statesmen, actors & actresses, and other persons of prominence as "bowlegged or knock-kneed, or hair-lipped or cross-eyed, or bald or paunchy" that it is a real and solid pleasure to know that Ambassador Grew is "handsome and patrician," and . . . makes me feel that my belief and faith in TIME as a pleasure-giving, information-gathering publication has not been misplaced...