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...plot begins with the murder of a blonde in an apartment on West 83rd Street and ends with the murderer's demise about a week later on the Williamsburg Bridge. In between is an intricate, tense story involving a number of jewel thieves and two untiring detectives. The camera roams pleasantly over most of New York as the detectives close in, and Albert Maltz, the scriptwriter, has even provided moments of comic relief in his caressing tour of the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naked City | 4/6/1948 | See Source »

...raising escape from a Nazi P.O.W. camp and subsequent undercover work with the French Maquis. Among correspondents, the New York Times's Drew Middleton and Australia's Alan Moorehead were the best of the I-witnesses. Among the unit combat histories already published: those of the 24th, 83rd, 84th, 103rd, 104th Divisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...Benedictine monks around the hollow square of tables ate their simple noon meal in silence. But then, since it was a special occasion, they broke out the good Priory port, to toast the eldest of their number. It was the Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman's 83rd birthday. It was also a memorable fortnight for him. Last week his old school, St. George's (Episcopal), one of the top U.S. prep schools, celebrated its 50th year. This week another of his old schools, Portsmouth Priory (Catholic), marked its 20th. He founded both, and was their first headmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Father Diman | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...Ninth Army's 83rd Division fought into Hamm, which has the biggest rail marshalling yards in Germany, and three days later cleared the city. Elsewhere even the fighting for villages was tough. The Germans launched small but savage counterattacks with tanks, fought off the U.S. attacks with dug-in tanks and self-propelled guns. In the Siegen area, on the south side of the pocket, they put in ten counterattacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Thorny Package | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

This afternoon two doughs of the 83rd Division went across the Rhine at Düsseldorf. They didn't come back. But that was only the more proof that all traffic over the Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: A Thing of Beauty | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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