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...immediate reason was that last autumn he opposed a proposal to withdraw from Russia and concentrate on an all-out Mediterranean offensive. One change in Nazi command was apparently for merit alone: the Luftwaffe's new fighter chief, 30-year-old Gen eral Adolf Galland, was credited with upward of 100 enemy planes, had won the cherished Knight's Cross, and was now Germany's youngest general...
...commission represents a step upward from Bingham's post in the last war, which he finished as a captain in the transport corps. He had served with the French Army as a member of the American Field Service from June to October, 1917, when he enlisted in the American forces as a private. He was commissioned a First Lieutenant Novem- ber 15 and a Captain in July, 1918. During the fighting of October 6-20, 1918 he won the Croix de Guerre for bravery. He returned to this country in April...
...Sliced. In their development of Dr. Moniz' methods, Drs. Freeman and Watts drill a small hole in the temple on each side of the patient's head where two skull bones meet. Surgeon Watts then inserts a dull knife into the brain, makes a fan-shaped incision upward through the prefrontal lobe, then downward a few minutes later. He then repeats the incisions on the other side of the brain. No brain tissues are removed. (In two operations they have cut cerebral arteries. Both patients died...
...cannon, machinery, tanks; trucks trapped by sudden rains that had turned the marshlands around Buqbuq into seas of mud. Beside the coast road lay the German dead, grey faces hidden by the peaked caps of the Afrika Korps. Beside them lay their Italian allies, men with stiff beards pointed upward at the stormy African...
Rises in sheet-music sales have paralleled piano sales which rose from a depression low of 22,000 pianos in 1931 to 114,734 in 1941. Last July this upward flight of pianos was abruptly .terminated when the WPB stopped piano manufacture, turned U.S. piano factories into airplane parts plants. But Tin Pan Alley's publishers hope sheet music will go marching on, for the American home is already well stocked with pianos...