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...America, John. But Chicago is. . . . Well, I guess it's much the same way with us. Manchester, Bradford, or Newcastle - they'll tell you London's all right, but they're the places where the jobs get done. . . . Down here back of the Loop and among these warehouses - well, it might be most any place in England. Salford or Sunderland or Wapping, I guess. It looks kinda grey and squalid, doesn't it? Chicago's not all beautiful like the lake shore. It's far too big for that...
Feet and Hours. For the film, Fonda uses Cellophane twice the thickness of cigaret wrappings. The recording tape, a little over an inch wide, is an endless loop 350 ft. long; once around is eight minutes and in eight hours of recording the needle cuts 60 parallel grooves in the tape. Cellophane records are less bulky and more permanent than recordings on magnetized wire (TIME, May 17); the wire is subject to magnetic interference. Cellophane recording also seems likely to be a good deal cheaper for some time to come than light-wave recording (as in movie sound tracks), even...
...consuming. The Wehrmacht found no rest at the Dnieper, only more blood, battle and bafflement. The Red Army crunched through Zaporozhe, grappled fiercely for Gomel, Kiev and Melitopol, crashed through the German lines between the key cities, battered at the flank of the enemy's Dnieper loop, threatened with disaster his powerful forces in the Crimea...
...with a schoolboy's face as one of the most daring of its young generals; it has jumped him two grades since April. A tank expert, he won his spurs fighting the Japanese in 1939. Some two years later his columns decimated the Italian Army in the Don loop, continued to race into the Ukraine until they bogged down in the mud and ran out of fuel. The Red Command forgave him. When the hour struck for the summer offensive, Popov received command of the crucial Bryansk front...
...command of a cavalry division. Today his soldiers rate Vatutin as a "driving general," recall with awe last winter's campaign, when with fury and disdain for physical suffering he hurled his men into attack in the fiercest blizzards until the Nazi defenses in the Don loop crumbled...