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...years the $462,000,000 International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. helplessly watched the Axis overrun one of its properties after another, from France to Shanghai, watched its earnings nose-dive with each new blitz. But last week hawk-nosed, Virgin Island-born I. T. & T. President Sosthenes Behn released an annual report for 1943 which showed that the war is finally working for, instead of against, his globe-girdling behemoth...
After tea about a hundred 14-to 17-year-old veterans of the London blitz gather around the fireplace in the headmaster's living room of Westminster School, adjoining the ancient Abbey. Under the chairmanship of an OWI girl, they fire questions at a brain trust of two or three young people repatriated after living in the U.S. The brain trust is coached by Author Christopher Morley's smart 24-year-old daughter Louise, now the wife of Cameron Highlander Captain James Cochrane...
...publish it until 1915. In 1912 she married brisk Editor Leonard Woolf, with whom she published books that the London Times described as "having a political trend to the Left." Several times in her life she had had intimations of insanity. During the blitz she was twice bombed out of her house, and moved to Monks House, a long, low, green frame dwelling surrounded by gardens, in Sussex. On March 28, 1941, she wrote a note to Vanessa and one to her husband, took her stick and walked across the Downs to the River Ouse. Later her hat and stick...
...Irene Kelly, Pittsburgh widow, has a son in Italy: Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 23, the "one-man blitz" who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for mowing down some 40 Nazis. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Kelly has two sons-Howard, 16, Danny, 11. Last week Son Howard sharpened a pencil, and got in touch with Washington...
...slick French newcomer last week joined the ranks of America's refugee publications. Title: Tricolor. Descent: from London's La France Libre, blitz-born champion of French resistance. Contents: literary appreciations of the French underground; elegant patter on a Paris midinette's chic triumph over her ersatz clothes; letters of Marcel Proust; essays on Vichy doubletalk, wartime Paris, Painter Pierre Bonnard. Editor: André Labarthe, brilliant ex-physicist, intellectual foe of Vichy, onetime friend of Charles de Gaulle, former Giraud minister, now an OWIer...