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Show Xfhi.Phillipr W IP TACTICS AT HOME WERE COPIED AT THE FRONT Somewhere on the Italian Front. American troops believed today that they were poised for a smashing attack but were not certain. "Our orders come from a high authority and are off the record," stated a puzzled major. "We may be attacking attack-ing and we may not be." (Later) The army is said to be confident it is about to go into battle but can't be certain. The trouble is said to be due to the fact that nobody no-body having the operation in charge wants to permit his name to be used. Makin. It is stated on a high authority au-thority that American troops are in firm possession here after heroic fighting. Survivors sent up trial balloons bal-loons today to find out for certain. "I wouldn't care to say a word," said a battered doughboy. "I think I I know what happened but I ain't I anonymous enough to have any standing in print." Algiers. Failure to take definite objectives north of Rome were attributed at-tributed today by a person of considerable con-siderable prominence in the army to the fact that the units involved were given their orders through an unidentified radio commentator. The units would not accept the orders until they got the newspapers and saw what the war correspondents I thought. All the war correspondents could say was that they had been told by a "Mr. X" that a member of the high command in good repute had favored an attack, but not in his official capacity. An Allied Bomber Base. According Accord-ing to sources hitherto regarded as reliable, 300 planes left for an attack at-tack over the continent tonight. Another An-other 200 planes were to have gone along, but wanted the mission confirmed con-firmed in writing. "Am I in an air attack or not?" demanded an American gunner. "I think I am." "Washington is thinking along the same line. That's the best I can give you," replied a superior. Menace to Peace Found! Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, German minister for Occupied territories in the East, blames it all on American skyscrapers. He calls New York the concentrated giant of chaos, with 50 or 80 story skyscrapers the symbol sym-bol of the destruction of the individual. indi-vidual. "An old German farm," he says, "contains more spirit of freedom free-dom and creative force than all the skyscrapers of America put together." togeth-er." Now it's all clear. The Chrysler Tower and the Empire State building build-ing started the war. Ah, those farms, so gentle, sweet and humane, with the people envying nobody, scorning violence and seeking no trouble whatever with anyone. Just contrast them with those, skyscraper people, armed to the teeth, goose-stepping goose-stepping in and out of elevators! Candidates for the Delousing Squad The American who noisily buys war bonds, gives a patriotic talk at a soldiers' canteen, whoops it up for the all-out war . . . and then takes a suite of rooms at a Florida hotel away from a serviceman and his family by offering ten times the normal nor-mal rate. William K. Vanderbilt's death brought back stories of the Vander-bilt Vander-bilt Cup races, which he sponsored as a youth, and it was flabbergasting flabbergast-ing to see in the papers that the speed of the auto that won the first race was 52 miles an hour. Or about the pace at which most cars aow turn a corner in traffic. Cream From the Drugstore. It seems there is a new racket. Doctors are permitted to issue prescriptions pre-scriptions for cream. You'd be surprised sur-prised how many patients are getting get-ting it for everything from a common com-mon cold to fallen arches. And we , heard of one man who was asked, as he tried to get a prescription pre-scription for a few pints of rich cream. "What seems to be wrong with you?" "I seem to tire easily in my attempt at-tempt to beat the ration rules," was the reply. Jet Plane It's off the globe to circle! . . . All records out to crack . . . Whoosh! . . . Zippo! . . . Whee and Presto! . . . The gol-dinged thing is back! Can You Remember Away back when the football season sea-son ended in midwinter? And when generals never announced an-nounced where they would attack next or how soon they would achieve victory? When the bartender was joking when he said "Name your poison"? "OPA Runs Out of Resignation Blanks," headline. It may be necessary nec-essary to ration them. |