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...nation's mind ever since he retreated to his swamp home 13 months ago, the owl-eyed, trap-mouthed head of tobacco-juicy Gene Talmadge briefly raised itself to the light last week. The pseudo-folksy ex-Governor of Georgia made the papers by rising before the Lions Club of little Eastman, Ga. (pop. 3,311) and plugging the election of General Douglas MacArthur to the Presidency-as a Democrat. Then the No. 1 Has-Been of Georgia politics subsided again with a faint snapping of galluses, having once more done nobody a great deal of good...
Last week Moscow announced the liquidation of the pocket, listed the German losses: 55,000 dead within the trap, 21,800 outside it; 18,000 taken prisoner; 430 planes wrecked; 625 tanks and 500 guns destroyed or taken. Some 3,000 officers managed to escape in transports. Left behind was the body of General Wilhelm Stemmermann, Commander in Chief...
...trap was sprung just as the second Jap was starting down the bank of the creek bed. In a split second...
...Radium Chemical Co. promptly sent a crew with sensitive detectors to work down through 19 floors of plumbing. They found only one tube, caught in a defective trap...
Working out of Fort Belvoir, the Engineers' mine and trap men fly from camp to camp with samples of German (and Jap) devices. After lectures and demonstrations, students are divided into two groups, go to work laying mines. Most of the mines have 2-in. firecrackers attached...