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Sick with "armor fever," Manstein and his teammates brought up huge 60-ton "Tiger" tanks (Mark VI) and 70-ton "Ferdinand" self-propelled guns. Smaller tanks were given an extra skin of armor. In all, 17 tank and 18 infantry divisions were massed for the summer drive, Russians said this was history's highest ratio of tanks to infantry...
...factories. Russian engineers performed miracles in expanding production, modernizing old weapons, creating new ones. Russia's Katusha antedated the U.S. bazooka, the German rocket gun. New, high-velocity, armor-piercing shells enabled the Red Army to retain anti-tank guns once thought too light to tackle the German Tiger...
Face of the Tiger...
...says. "It is just one of those things." After 23 years of pastoral work (chiefly at Buffalo's fashionable Delaware Avenue Church, Detroit's big Central Church), he was chosen a Bishop, assigned to far-off Bangalore, India. There Bishop Smith diversified his episcopal duties by shooting tigers. The skin of the first tiger that glared back at Bangalore's Bishop now reposes in rug form on Bishop Smith's living-room floor in Cincinnati's outlying Linwood section. Bishop Smith drilled the beast with one clean shot...
...grownup, good woman should. Miss Garson's beauty was neither parasitic nor predatory, but rich and kind. She wore the sort of ample, archaic dresses in which many cinemaddicts tenderly remembered themselves, their wives, or their mothers. She did not make love like a saber-toothed tiger. She treated shy, fumbling Schoolmaster Chips (as every shy, fumbling cinemaddict could see) gaily, gently, generously. She turned him into a shining and confident husband. And when she died in childbirth, she mowed down her audience in great emotional windrows, and left them gnashing their handkerchiefs and begging for more...