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More than a month had passed since Midway, and the pattern of the greatest and probably the most decisive naval battle since Jutland still lay in the public mind like an ill-matched jigsaw puzzle, confused and without fit. At last the Navy issued its official report, and the pieces dropped into their places...
...Husbands Necessary? (Paramount) may serve to record on celluloid a pattern of U.S. social behavior once considered cute: the late, unlamented antics of the country-club set. But as an attempt at scatterbrained domestic frivolity, it falls flat on its farce...
Timoshenko took care to be no guest at the Red table. He conformed to the pattern of almost all the great careers in the Red Army: he was successively a local, regional and national official of the Party; the while he attended Red Army schools, commanded Red troops in the field. His associates, superiors and teachers were often the generals whom Stalin purged, with the active or passive consent of Timoshenko and the others who survived and rose in the aftermath. The western world has never made up its mind about the purges. It may be that, as Moscow said...
...industrial wellsprings that supply the German army in Russia were targets; but the raids were part & parcel of the Battle of the Atlantic. Since March, when U-boat marauding in the western Atlantic grew intense, the R.A.F had blasted a pattern of destruction through German submarine-building cities, seeking to choke off U-boats at their source. Among them were Augsburg and Cologne (diesel engines), Essen (plates and torpedo tubes), Emden and Bremen (assembly yards), Warnemünde (U-boat training base), Wilhelmshaven and St. Nazaire, France (operational bases...
...Welcomes. In almost all the 22 cities they visited-flying from point to point in a giant transport-the pattern of their welcome was the same, a routine in which only the names and places changed. They were greeted by civic and military dignitaries. They had a parade, in open cars if there was sun, in closed sedans when it rained. After a while, they got so they waved their hands at the crowds in a methodical way. There were stiff luncheons with polite speeches, formal dinners with high, windy, patriotic talk. There were rallies in auditoriums and ball parks...