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Determined to be officers & gentlemen, Naval Reserve officer trainees at the University of California seemed inclined to pull their punches in regular boxing settos. So their instructors thought up a game that looked something like a Donnybrook Fair but was actually the offspring of two respectable sports: basketball and boxing...
...crashed B-25 at a China base came the agonized screams of a dying, 20-year-old sergeant-gunner. Sickened airmen stood around the plane and listened, sobbing in helpless horror. They had tried rescue. As many as six had rushed in, had hauled and tugged, even tried to pull the sergeant loose from his legs, crushed and trapped behind the copilot's seat. They had failed, driven back by the consuming fire...
...Rundstedt had to pull men and arms from the north to meet the Remagen threat, yet he still had to man 150 miles of the Rhine and be ready to fight a crossing anywhere. It was this harsh stretching of Rundstedt's already paper-thin manpower that led some experts in Washington to say that Remagen had shortened the war by six to eight weeks...
...shallower and slower there-and last week it was falling. If the Germans can pull themselves together, the Allied crossings are likely to be bloodily contested, especially if made in a frontal attack on the Ruhr. The Germans seemed to fear landings north and south of the Ruhr, aimed at quick envelopment of that vital industrial basin. Particularly, they seemed to fear the British Second Army, which, D.N.B. screamed, was moving up to Emmerich under smoke screens with 80,000 to 120,000 men and lavish bridging equipment...
Later he hopes to add more such equipment, pull Alaska's far-flung routes into a tight, efficient network, thus dominate the north completely. If & when that time comes, he has a still greater dream: break out of Alaska on routes already applied for and fly to Seattle, Minneapolis and Chicago, maybe even Russia and the Orient...