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Even Montgomery, a man with fanatical confidence in his plans and troops, might have had some uneasy moments in the early stages of the battle, as he pushed the thin beachhead inland, turned the Second Army eastward to invite resistance and hold it, then wheeled the American First Army west and north to Cherbourg. The plan worked: British infantry and artillery held the German armored attacks...
...impossible to state in precise terms how uncomfortable the situation was. It was true that mobilization had rubbed the nation's race problem raw. Pinko agitators, self-styled liberals and other citizens of good will had plucked at the sore. The thin-skinned and irritable Negro press, which has seldom missed a report of injustice to Negro troops and has played it for all it would stand, continued to print most of the sensational and baseless yarns which flew around, from standard soldiers' gripes on up. The truth lay somewhere between such red-eyed denunciation and the bland...
...north, in a long thin funnel, white to greasy green in color, the storm poured through, with thunderous roar and a long trail of smoke like an express train. It hit Joetown, then Oakdale, then swept Pleasant Hill. Fifteen of the 25 houses toppled as if they had been stepped on. Stoves, mattresses and tables poured down onto Route 19. Porches and roofs, caught in the swirl, splashed in the debris of Pleasant Hill, and then the tornado ground on through West Virginia...
...support the Chinese, Claire Chennault's tiny Fourteenth Air Force did its gallant best. More than 1,000 sorties were flown in a week* against river shipping and roads clogged with Jap columns. But the Fourteenth's forces were spread thin over a big and complicated theater...
...Here is a thin (80-page), close-cropped (5-by-7-in.) book of ferocious, slapstick, sometimes disturbing gag-drawings plus a short introduction by Magazine Writer Kyle (Redder Than the Rose) Crichton. "Virgil Partch is nuts," writes Crichton, ". . . but nuts in a nice American way." Partch fans found little that was Nelly-nice, less that was especially American. But they did find a fresh-cartoon humor, based on a slambang, explosive brand of fantasy. Example...