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Another went into a funny flat loop with a full bomb load. Chutes came popping out just as one wing cracked...
...Nazi bomber swooped in over the Anzio beach, dropped its big radio-controlled rocket bomb, started to guide it toward the Allied supply ships below. The ships tossed up a fountain of flak, trying to explode the projectile. Suddenly the bomb slowed in midair, twisted into a crazy loop, started straight back toward its parent plane...
...Krivoi Rog, where the Red Army was closing in on the last great Nazi hedgehog in the Dnieper loop...
...defenses. Moscow announced that he had all but cut off five infantry divisions there. But more important still was his threat to the great Nazi strongholds of Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. When they fall (this week the Russians were fighting in Nikopol's suburbs), most of the Dnieper loop will be cleared out. Germany will face the prospect that both ends of its once well-knit line will come unraveled...
...bond rally in the Loop last week hundreds of readers of the Chicago Daily News met two of their favorite newspaper characters. They were there in person: 1) "Oxie O'Rourke," a baggy-pants commentator off West Madison Street who speaks the unimportant man's view of important matters in a side-of-the-mouth argot; 2) fat-chinned Clem Lane, a near-legendary Chicago newspaper man. The two are one & the same...