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...great arc toward Serafimovich. Their purpose was to swing west and south, meet the southern columns and close a ring around the Germans (see map). From Serafimovich prongs spread out like the curving tines of a peasant's pitchfork. From the southern force, moving along the Stalingrad-Novorossiisk railway, prongs also curved off. One jabbed across the Don, severed the Stalingrad-Rostov railway, cut back east to squeeze Axis troops against Stalingrad. In Stalingrad itself the 13th Division began to bend the stubborn German head backward...
...raids, three on successive nights, have "completely devastated" one 27-acre area and another of 20 acres in the heart of Genoa, which lies in an amphitheater facing the sea. The main railway stations have been smashed, the great Genoa harbor knocked out as an effective supply port. Fascists claimed the bombers invariably hit only ancient shrines and churches, including Santo Stefano where Christopher Columbus was baptized. A mass evacuation of civilians wildly fighting for train passage indicated houses, military targets and morale had all been struck...
...perhaps to Nome. Since last spring the route has been quietly surveyed under U.S. Engineer Colonel Peter Goerz. A Seattle steel company has bought up the rails from a half-dozen defunct railroads. Washington has discussed the route with Ottawa, and has considered buying a decrepit, 350-mile Canadian railway (between Vancouver and Prince George-although it does not quite reach either) which would fit into the new route...
Faster and less vulnerable than the water route, the railway would insure transportation to make Alaska a supply base for a drive against Japan-should Siberia be opened to U.S. forces...
Casablanca (Warner). Before the U.S. seizure of Morocco handed Warner Bros. some of the most dazzling promotion in years, Casablanca was just an exotic location for a topical melodrama. The city was known to European refugees as a desperate whistle stop on the underground railway to Lisbon. This picture is about some refugees who were stranded in Casablanca and some of the people who helped or hindered them. Among them...