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...British arms on the Continent never recovered," writes Ingersoll. It was not even "a successful sacrifice play." When Bradley went ahead on his great sweep down through Saint Lô and east and north beyond Paris, the British "simply moved along the coast of France" from Caen to the Belgian border. Had Bradley been given ample fuel supplies, Ingersoll is sure, the European war would have been over in 1944. But Eisenhower, "sympathetic" to the British, listened to Montgomery, who also wanted extra fuel supplies, and the war dragged on through another winter. "History had called for a Supreme Allied...
Died. George Washington, 75, Belgian-born inventor of soluble G. Washington coffee, spare-time keeper of a private zoo; in Mendham...
...Ernst's prizewinner was an expert nightmare (see cut). Runners-up: Belgian Paul Delvaux, who sent a study of three disarmingly naked, disarmingly beautiful women in a ruined, neo-classical landscape; Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, for an ulcerous omelet of flesh, fish, snakes and rodents; Salvador Dali, whose desert caravan of spider-legged elephants "carrying on their backs erotic fountains, obelisks, churches and escorials" (see cut) for once was pretty comprehensible...
Paradise Preserved. Even the Japanese, apparently, had fallen under the spell of "the land where the angels fly low." Dutch troops came upon two happy veterans of Bali's flourishing prewar artists' colony: Belgian Adrien Jean Le Mayeur, 66, and Swiss Theo Meier, 38. They told no harrowing stories of hunger sieges, frozen feet or welted backs. Painter Le Mayeur had lived through the war in a tile-floored seaside villa overhung with purplish-pink bougainvillea blossoms. His studio was a garden perfumed by the powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok...
...nobody took to the belga. No belga was ever minted. To travelers, Belgium's currency was still the franc. Last week the Belgian Government finally gave up. From now on, it will officially call its unit of foreign exchange the franc. The Belgian franc no longer needs protection. It is quoted at 2.3 U.S. cents, v. .8? for the French franc...