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...battle of Burma blazed along a 300-mile front. Japanese shock troops forced crossings of the Biliu River, but the British contended their defenses were holding against heavy assault--45 miles from the Rangoon-Lashio Railway, the last practicable Allied route into China...
Setbacks on two fronts jolted the Axis Sunday--in Russia, where Red Army shock troops stormed westward through crumbling German lines toward the old Polish frontier, and in the southeastern Mediterranean zone, where British forces struck heavily by land...
...lucky rescue, after 45 minutes in the water, from the torpedoed British Galatea (TIME, Dec. 29). He corrected first reports that he had been hospitalized afterwards in Alexandria-he had only gone to bed in a hotel. But he still suffers from severe headaches in consequence of shock and swallowing oil scum...
...when thousands of lives were lost for lack of fresh whole blood for transfusion, medical men thought most of the deaths were caused by the loss of red blood corpuscles. Later they discovered that the loss of the blood fluid was more serious, that when a patient suffers shock from burns, wounds or hemorrhage, the sluggish blood stream prevents the red corpuscles, even when plenty are left, from taking enough oxygen to the body cells...
Critics of this preponderance have lately become vigorous. Sports Writer Bill Cunningham, discovering daytime radio with a shock, snorted last month in the Boston Herald: "Try driving 400 miles, as I did yesterday, with nothing but the radio for company, and if you don't go nuts between 10 a.m. and sundown, you're tough enough to laugh off anything." Fortnight ago, Fred Allen, with his razor-strop smoothness, put on a savage parody (Clipso, the aristocrat of soap chips, presents Susan Spavin, Girl Sandhog). In Ottawa, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s general manager, W. E. Gladstone...