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Heaviest Army casualties were during the concentrated and furious period of the Normandy invasion. D-day also marked the beginning of a sharp ascent (see chart) which continued to mount as the fighting raged closer to Germany's borders. U.S. Army casualties in Europe from D-day to Jan. 1, said Stimson, have been 54,562 dead, 232,672 wounded, 45,678 missing. The Secretary could have added, had he been so minded, that while the casualties on Normandy beaches were lower than the most optimistic had guessed, the total as of Jan. 1, 1945 was substantially higher than...
...Great Fog are as weird as this one. Bearded, erudite Author Henry Fitzgerald Heard is a masterly exponent of the Doylian detective story and the Wellsian, pseudoscientific fantasy. Writing under the name of Gerald Heard, he is also a distinguished British mystic (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity...
...leader of Britain's famed, leftist "Auden Circle." Like most original poets, Auden experimented constantly with the styles and techniques of his predecessors-Donne, Blake, Byron, Housman, Yeats, Rilke. He wrote sharply satirical leftish poems (The Orators, The Dance of Death), co-authored verse dramas with Isherwood (The Ascent of F6, The Dog Beneath the Skin), edited anthologies (The Oxford Book of Light Verse), turned out some of the most sparkling verse of his time, wrote highly personal witty reports on his travels in Iceland and China (Letters from Iceland, Journey...
...mother's sake, and what is more he loves his mother very much. One city father simply turns to another and whispers gleefully: "See, he has a natural flair for politics." The sight of so much suffering inevitably makes Woodrow's ultimate ascent from his excruciating little comic hell an uncommonly heart-warming experience...
...time Numan entered the Foreign Office at Ankara in 1929 as a departmental head, foreign attaches already knew this sick young man with an abscessed lung and deficient hearing as a cold, hard, calculating bargainer. When, 22 months ago, Numan's gradual ascent up the Foreign Office ladder brought him to the top rung as Minister, no one was surprised...