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...Commando show, at Bardia, Sir Walter fell in a ditch more than 62 inches deep. He verbally flayed a stalwart young officer who, mistaking him for Major Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies), tried to extricate him in the darkness. In Rommel's sudden thrust at Bir Hacheim in 1942, Sir Walter was captured. For 16 months he was a prisoner. Then Italy's collapse released him and gave him a chance to win his second D.S.O...
Ernie Pyle announced that he was coming home from the battlefields of France. Said he: "I've been 29 months overseas . . . nearly a year in the front lines. . . . My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. . . . All of a sudden it seemed to me that if I heard one more shot or saw one more dead man, I would go off my nut." Frail, brave Columnist Pyle added that, as soon as he is rested up, he hopes to push off for the Pacific...
...told, the Army plan-good news as it was to many troops long overseas and beginning to despair even of getting home on furloughs -offered little hope of a sudden, big homeward parade before the successful conclusion of the Pacific...
...Rome last week, while newsmen shot questions at him, Prime Minister Winston Churchill sat down on an open barrel of political TNT and calmly lit a cigar. He had arrived in Italy four days before the Allied armada invaded southern France, three days after the sudden arrival of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Since then he had talked to Tito, to Italy's Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, Marshal Badoglio, Lieutenant of the Realm Prince Umberto, to Pope Pius XII. These talks might have concerned military plans. They almost certainly concerned the future plans of Britain and Russia in the Balkans...
...five game winning streak. After beating the Dodgers 6 to 3 Wednesday, the Beavers fell apart at the seams Thursday when the Browns clubbed them 19-2, and then on Friday they were the victims of Keith Miller's three-hit pitching as the Tigers, finding a sudden power at the plate, won 14 to 0. Other games in a busy week saw the Tigers nip the Cards 3 to 1 on Al Ogden's daredevil base running, the Dodgers edged the Cards 3 to 2, and the Browns took undisputed possession of first by downing the Dodgers...