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...tables are turned, his friend becomes his enemy, his girl laughs at him or some body punches him, physically, intellectually or spiritually, on the nose. Three of the stories collected here (most of them first published in The New Yorker) deal with face slappings, knockouts, punches in the jaw. Thirteen deal with their social equivalents: snubs, cuts, insults, brush-offs and cold shoulders. The others tell of rudenesses, deceits, infidelities or-more often-pathetic pretenses cruelly unmasked...
Last week all this ill feeling culminated in a grave work stoppage-a noisy, angry row which spread into thirteen Detroit war plants, sent over 35,000 Detroit workers into the streets...
...long and rocky stretched the road ahead. His men were still digging Jap stragglers out of Manila's hot rubble. Thirteen were taken in the Philippine General Hospital two weeks after it was captured. But the main Army forces, their work done, had turned away from the city, gone back to the jungles...
Smart General Patton had brought plenty of artillery into the Bastogne pocket. Thirteen battalions of big field guns laid down a two-hour barrage. The paratroopers heard German wounded screaming in the woods. Of 28 attacking German tanks, 21 were knocked out by artillery, three more by U.S. tanks and tank destroyers. The other four fled...
...right now with an exhibition of pictures chosen from the most dramatic shots in our files of "Five Years of War." As a permanent display you will find some of the biggest maps you ever saw-the famous "orthographic projection" maps of Cartographer Richard Edes Harrison-now expanded to thirteen feet across to give you a striking illusion of being able to look down on the world from a plane high in the super-stratosphere. And other exhibits will change from month to month to try to keep pace with the swift march of this year's news...