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...tank held off nine Mark IVs and a Mark VI, destroyed four of them and damaged the Mark VI before a shell exploded in one of his gas tanks. Hightower shouted to his crew: "Git!" They got, jumping out "like peas from a hot pod." The other, thin-skinned vehicles had been saved...
Bottom of the Barrel. The U.S. was finally scraping the bottom of its manpower barrel. Planning to induct about 400,000 men a month, it has already found that the leavings are thin indeed. General Hershey reported that rejections (mainly for physical and occupational reasons) already run from 35 to 40%, are expected to increase. By the end of the year only 3,000,000 fit men in the 18-37 age bracket will be left in civilian life...
Probably not even General McNair dreamed that the thin, slight officer with the booming voice would swing into higher commands so swiftly. Made a lieutenant colonel during the maneuvers, he was taken up by Colonel Dwight David Eisenhower, who made him Deputy Chief of Staff of the Third Army. Three weeks after Pearl Harbor, Al Gruenther became a colonel; last year he got his brigadier general's star, went to England with Eisenhower...
That is why TIME goes to such lengths to tell you how people in the news look and sound and act (even when they are "viper-thin" or "hen-shaped"). We think by helping you size up the actors we can also help you size up the news. And we think that giving you a visual handle by which to remember the actors also helps you remember the news in which they played the leading part...
Died. Woodbridge Strong ("Woody") Van Dyke II, 53, ace cinedirector (The Thin Man, Marie Antoinette, Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas), tireless tippler, practical jokester; in Brentwood, Calif. A master of the tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes...