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...entirely unverified is the latest story on Fearless Fosdick . . . From this corner, it looks highly problematical that the boy with take over the Regimental Reins Genesis of the rumor is questionable, and the whole thing could be relegated to pure conjecture, according to our usually informed sources . . . Take a pill with the current scuttle about Witt's joining the typing staff...
Doctors Disagree (by Rose Franken; produced by William Brown Meloney) is a piece of pill-coated sugar. Glibly combining heart interest with brain operations, Playwright Franken (Claudia, Outrageous Fortune) keeps an assortment of problems churning. Sore beset is Miss Franken's doctor heroine (Barbara O'Neill) whose neurologist beau (Philip Ober) doubts whether a woman can qualify as a good surgeon. No sooner is he proved wrong than he starts doubting whether a good surgeon can qualify as a woman. The poor girl, meanwhile, is in an awful pickle about disregarding professional ethics in order to save...
Tough Town. Small, sleepy Gorodok was one of the keys to Vitebsk. All through the summer the Germans fortified its approaches with steel, timber, concrete. They buried old tanks, to serve as pill boxes. They strung out miles of barbed wire, sowed the swamps with mines. They had hoped to stay in Gorodok a long, long time: the dugouts were large; the officers' quarters had hardwood floors...
...Point. That was the way it went the first day. The assault battalions had been cut to ribbons. Anyone who ventured beyond the beachhead and the retaining wall - and by mid-afternoon several hundred Marines had so ventured - was likely to become a casualty. From treetop concealment and from pill box slits Jap snipers and machine-gunners raked the Americans...
...first this dawning realization was a bitter pill for the R.A.F. Bomber Command and the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Every shift of bombers to the Mediterranean was a "diversion," a threat to the use of independent air power. By last week the pill was becoming an acceptable if not yet welcomed dose of reason and fact. Bomber men began to see that southern Europe offered better flying weather, bases increasingly near to central and southern Germany. They also began to see that "tactical" front-line bombing and "strategic" rear-line bombing were part & parcel of the same...