Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right arm, sporting a rash of ribbons and a Patton commendation for "superior performance." No shrinking violet, Allen has let his publisher spread the commendation on the jacket of Lucky Forward, his raucous, truculent history of Patton's Third Army. In a not very roundabout way, the author is made to shine in the reflection of Patton's glories, for, according to Allen, "Patton never made a move without first consulting G2. In planning, G-2 always had the first...
George Could Have Done It. Allen's charges against SHAEF and British Field Marshal Montgomery are heated and serious, but military men and plain readers alike will be apt to notice a lack of documentation for Author Allen's conclusions. Says Allen of the Falaise gap: "The trap was set. All that remained was to spring it. ... There was nothing...
Grenadine Etching is a lampoon on the big-bosomed heroines of lending-library historical fiction-seemingly a sure-fire subject. The author, a Scripps-Howard columnist, must have thought so, because he didn't work hard enough...
Olivia Robertson is a well-bred young Irishwoman who has done social work in an improved Dublin slum. Like many other social workers who make copy of their experiences, Author Robertson sometimes commits to print anecdotes and adventures that probably sounded fine at the time but, in type, only seem strained and amateurish, like a genteel effort to make a smutty-faced child blow its nose. The savor of the subject, however, often rises above her polite intentions...
...mind, makes up his mind for him, when atomic fission explodes her planet and it becomes a star, which he finds on his photographic plates. By this time the much-bruited question of whether the fellow is out of his mind should have been settled, but the author still seems to think that he is sane. And then, alas, there are sexy jokes concerning this woman spook and Massey's infidelity to his loving wife...