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...Leonid Govorov, plump, short, middleaged, with unruly hair and a Hitlerian mustache. In 1940 this artillery expert helped to open a corridor into Leningrad, broke the Germans' partial blockade but did not-as accounts at the time wrongly indicated-actually free the city. Until this month, German shells tore daily into Leningrad's brick-and-mortar flesh, and its defenders rode to the front in streetcars. More than a million had died of cold and hunger since Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's army first besieged the city in 1941. Last week, after their long torture...
Broadcasting from his home on Montpelier's Main Street, Chicago-born Governor Wills first extolled Vermont's rock-ribbed Republicanism. Then he tore into those who think the G.O.P. can win with almost any candidate. Said...
First Lady. When the Hoovers moved into the White House in 1929, Lou Hoover was the most cosmopolitan First Lady of this century. She tore the executive mansion apart, refurbished it from top to bottom, much of it with the Hoovers' own money. She entertained on a more lavish scale than any of her predecessors. In Forty-Two Years in the White House, Chief Usher Irwin ("Ike") Hoover decribed a normal day's schedule: "A large lunch, a tea or two, possibly one at four-thirty and another at five-thirty, and a dinner of from...
...soon as the Calama Barracks was safely surrounded, the revolutionists in vited the people by radio to a celebration. Street mobs screamed: "Down with the Jews! Down with the North Americans!" They stoned the U.S. Embassy, looted the offices of the Aramayo mining company, tore the roof off President Peñaranda's house, paraded about with the Presidential bathtub over their heads. Soon MNR members with white armbands stopped the party, but the people of La Paz had shown their dislike for the U.S., had cast doubt upon: 1) the U.S. State Department, and 2) the practical effect...
Almost every day U.S. Army Liberators bombed the Marshalls; once they paid two visits between dawn and dusk. The big bombers pummeled Wot je's drome, tore up Taroa's runways, buildings and anchorage, damaged Jaluit's shore defenses, all secretly installed since the Japs took over this mandate from the unsuspecting League of Nations...