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...wartime, Author Remarque tries to raise serious questions about German guilt and corruption, and whether a soldier's first duty is to his country or his conscience. Unfortunately, he leaves such passages so dramatically inert that he continually seems to be chewing more than he has really bitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quiet on the Eastern Front | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Evidence. In Coventry, Conn., Insurance-Claims Adjuster John Van Housen arrived at the home of Patricia Reckard to investigate a claim resulting from a dog bite, was bitten by the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Christian de Castries, great field soldier, was scarcely a fanatic, nor were his hard-bitten French noncoms, or his Germans of the Foreign Legion, or his newly trained Vietnamese. All of these men, from the most widely disparate backgrounds, found-without fanaticism, brainwashing or Communist terror-as much of what the soldier needs as any Red ever showed. What they did not have-and the Communists do-is direction from above, the kind of direction that comes from the will to victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Will to Victory | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Vengeance Is Mine. In Albuquerque, Motorist Anita Warnick spotted the dog that had bitten her three weeks before, swerved to hit the beast, instead crashed into a house and wound up under arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...days, finally called him. He took her to the FBI, and for two weeks she talked-she named names, told about underground operations, party finances and channels of command, verified the Government's suspicion that the party membership in Washington State had fallen from 800 to 400 hard-bitten members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Atom Maniac | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

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