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Though De Gaullist guns thus disrupted Nazi preparations, Casablanca still managed to put up the stiffest of all resistance to the U.S. invasion. Foresighted George Patton shoved three tank columns ashore east and west of the sprawling city and hit first for an outlying reservoir. With that in his hands, he could cripple Casablanca if necessary. Soon parachutists seized the city's main airdrome and the tank force advanced...
...second night U.S. troops from the northeast were within four miles of Casablanca-although they had probably met the stiffest resistance they had yet found on land. But the most spectacular attacks were upon the port's great, artificial anchorage and upon the Vichy warships there: the battleship Jean Bart, uncompleted and now a stationary fortress with its 15-in. guns; several cruisers, destroyers, gunboats. Bombers, repeatedly attacking the Jean Bart, set her aflame...
...underlying coltishness has always been one of Ginger Rogers' strongest assets; here, it is the whole show. Her scenes on the train are at once broad, delicate and unflaggingly funny. In the cadets, she has some of the stiffest comic competition of the year. Ginger's real-life mother has a pleasant maternal moment playing her cinemama. Scenarists Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder seem to know all there is to know about the comedy inherent in the schoolboy mind. Billy Wilder, directing his first picture, puts it deftly across...
...Winton, an eight-year-old gelding owned and ridden by Socialite Stuart S. Janney Jr: the 49th running of the Maryland Hunt Cup, stiffest steeplechase in the U.S.; outjumping eight stout rivals and finishing the awesome four-mile course in 8 min., 44 4/5 sec.; near Baltimore. Having won the Grand National and My Lady's Manor point-to-points on two previous Saturdays, Janney & Winton made a grand slam of Maryland's famed hunt races-a feat never before accomplished...
...yard dash that the Blue will receive some of its stiffest competition. Last year's winner, Garrett of the Army, has graduated, but among those who are likely successors to this crown are Ed Hueber of Penn, John Eusden of Harvard and Jack Pulleyn of Yale. All have been under 24 seconds, Hueber's best effort being a 23.4 recorded against Army on February 14. Tony Bernabel of Princeton, Dick Keating and the Lilley brothers, Jack and Frank, all of Yale, are others who stand out at this distance...