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Beyond Rome the three main highways leading north were clogged with German motor equipment. Alexander's tactical air force tore savagely into them with guns and bombs. In the hills and fields, German foot soldiers backed northward, fighting stubbornly while the main bodies sped away from trouble. Allied units pressed closely. At one point they lost contact entirely with the retreating enemy, closed up fast to regain...
Argentine schoolchildren got a lesson in civics last week. Short time ago the Ministry of Public Instruction ordered every last one of them to write an essay on an arrogant speech by President Edelmiro Farrell. High-school Student Martha Grinberg had an arresting commentary: she stood up in class, tore her copy of the speech into little bits...
...days Vasilevsky's men, choking in the dust, dragged siege guns to the hilltops. Then the greatest barrage in the history of artillery-minded Russia tore holes in the German defense lines, opened gaps for Vasilevsky...
Then, suddenly, it became evident that G-men were patrolling the plant. Posters appeared on bulletin boards forbidding the firing of any employes without Government sanction. A sub-executive tore one of them off, was instantly handcuffed, hustled off to jail and charged with stealing Government property. His explanation: he just wanted to show it to his boss...
...married to a musician (Violinist Julius Schachter), she has abandoned the piano, turned thumbs down on the movies ("There's more money in radio, and anyway, I'm waiting for television"). She gets along so well with Sinatra that when his crowding fans tore her dress recently, Sinatra called for a needle & thread, knelt down and sewed it up. "Did a very neat job, too," says Joan...