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Killed in Action. Marine Sergeant Lee Powell, 35, circus and cinema portrayer of the masked vigilante "The Lone Ranger" after two years' Pacific service including Tarawa and Saipan...
Thus strengthened, the conservatives moved up for the final battle. On their side were all the Republicans (save North Dakota's lone corporal, Bill Langer) and a solid regiment of Southern Democrats...
...when Beurling came home two months ago he grumped: "There's no fun any more. . . . The German fighters won't come up and fight. . . ." The truth was that Beurling was too much of a lone eagle for 1944 fighting methods. In Britain they said he liked to break out of formations, tackle the Nazis singlehanded. At home, where he had been instructing, he complained: "They've been choking me up with red tape...
...View Is Short. The lone little German success of the week was the political maneuvering by which they kept beleaguered Finland in the war against Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS). Finland was another front where time meant something to the Germans. They wanted to keep the Soviets' 20 divisions (plus reserves) in Finland tied up there as long as possible, to stave them off their own necks at Narva. They were desperately anxious to keep the Russians away from Petsamo and its nickel mines, away from the Petsamo air base from which German planes sniped at Allied shipping...
Sirs: Please accept my sincere thanks for the interesting story on oil and the intricacies of drilling for the stuff [TIME, April 3]. A lone oil man could be a pretty nice guy, I guess, but I've lived with a good half-dozen ever since joining this battalion two years ago. I believe I have yet to hear any two of them reach an agreement, and I have listened to them screech at each other all the way across the Pacific. The C.O. is one of 'em but his rank doesn't help him when...