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This is Jack Belden, veteran of the war in China, of Stilwell's retreat from Burma and Montgomery's desert victory, of the Mareth Line, of Sicily and of Salerno, where he was so badly wounded during the first landings that he spent months in a hospital. It was only last week, still limping, he was able to get off to the wars again...
Simiantics. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Lee van Belden complained in court that her husband looked like a big monkey when, in the nude, he tried to shoot her with a spoon...
...TIME correspondents are spending their holidays in far places this year. Robert Sherrod was back from Tarawa for Christmas at home with his wife and two sons. Jack Belden, veteran of the wars in China, Burma, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, celebrated Christmas Day in a New York hospital, recuperating from the leg wound he got at Salerno (this was his first Christmas in his own country in ten years). But I guess the TIME & LIFE people an American Christmas meant most to this year were Carl and Shelley Mydans-back in the U.S via the Gripsholm after two years...
...Doolittle raid; Eve Curie's North African Journey Among Warriors ($3.50); Commando Lieut. Colonel Robert Henrique's The Voice of the Trumpet ($2); Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8 ($2) and Battle for the Solomons ($2); John Hersey's Into the Valley ($2); Jack Belden's Retreat With Stilwell ($3); Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War ($3); Hilary St. George Saunders' Combined Operations; the Official Story of the Commandos...
...after Jack Belden was wounded during the first fighting at Salerno, Calhoun's long-time knowledge of Italy seemed to make him the logical man to replace Belden. And with veteran Harry Zinder still on the job in the Middle East, we lost no time rushing Calhoun back to Italy...