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Observers of the German collapse were also beginning to believe that there was no hard German line of defense to guard the roads to Paris. The U.S. tank columns found the propagandized Rommel Line thin and brittle: there seemed to be no fixed line of solid defenses west of the Maginot and Siegfried forts...
...coffee shop he may, if he is lucky, get the 55? a la carte breakfast in less than an hour's time. But the eggs are cold and vulcanized, the bacon soggy, the toast black, the coffee thin and acid-and the waitress doesn't care. And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets...
...Kennedy's Client. Around 1939 the mail began to thin out, and Downey soon went off the air. He found a spot in Billy Rose's raucous show at the Fort Worth Texas Centennial, and another at Rose's Aquacade at the New York World's Fair. His comeback was rapid. He is a confessed millionaire, many of whose investments are under the shrewd thumb of Joseph P. Kennedy, but he has never taken himself too seriously. "Success," Morton Downey says, "has gone to my hips...
...Chairs. One of the bitterest blows of a bitter German week was the sudden appearance, east of the Latvian border, of stocky, limping General Andrei Yeremenko, seven-times-wounded hero of Stalingrad, Smolensk, the Crimea. Between Drissa and Pskov, quiescent up to last week, lay the last thin strip of Soviet territory still in German hands. Attacking on this 100-mile front, Yeremenko made gains up to 25 miles. On the narrow Issa River, the Germans blew up their ferries and crossings, but Yeremenko's doughty men swarmed across on small boats, rafts and logs...
...Ribbentrop explained that the Russians would probably stop somewhere between the Vistula and the Oder, permitting Germany to hold a thin line, reinforce the West and get credit among a fairly large number of 'sensible people' in Britain and the U.S. for keeping the Russians out of Central Europe. Determination would pull Germany through as the dominant power in Central Europe, which the English-speaking Allies would have to support and arm against might of Russia...