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Will They Like Each Other? The range of other issues which the three (or four) leaders may discuss is as wide as the world their alliance now dominates. Should the smaller United Nations, as Wendell Willkie urged last week, be invited at once to join and share in the Moscow...
Arrogant Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, who captured Kiev in 1941, was not its first alien invader. For eleven centuries, men of the sword-Variags and Khazars, Tatars, Lithuanians and Poles -ravished the beautiful city. The proud conquerors became dust; Kiev, with its seven rolling hills, its glistening church domes...
The lady in white is a great South African feature of the war. She is smiling, stocky, big-bosomed, 52-year-old Perla Siedle, a onetime Wagnerian soprano who has sung to more than 5,000 ships carrying a quarter of a million Allied servicemen in & out of South Africa...
Perla Siedle is known to U.S. doughboys as Kate Smith or Ma, to Britons as the Lady in White or the Soldiers' Sweetheart, to the Poles as the South African Nightingale. The wealthy daughter of a South African shipowner, she studied in Germany as a young woman, gave recitals...
The principle on which the device is based was discovered by a Cheadle partner named H. L. Durham, now retired. Puget Sound fishermen could not understand why their boats' propellers and metal rudderposts wore out so fast in the water. Durham thought it might be accounted for by electrolysis...