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Sirs: Recently I read a description of the battle of Iwo Jima. There still remains that depressing journalistic tradition of comparative analysis: "the bloodiest battle of the war," "toughest fight in Marine history," etc. . . . A battle is each man's personal hell. It is fought personally, felt intimately, and death is the individual's own contribution to a not so satisfying ideal. Surely the aggregate of all that horror is no more than the sum of each man's suffering, and the total can never be measured comparatively except by the individual who fights...
When he left Washington scores of other businessmen-in-government thought it was time to leave too. Even sage old Bernie Baruch, who had warned in February that "the bloodiest, costliest fighting in Europe still lies ahead," now wrote Home-Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes : "Hurry, hurry, hurry, not only in winning the war, but in being ready for the peace." Byrnes's answer was less a plan than a promise. In effect, Jimmy Byrnes promised that virtually all of the shackles would be dropped from business when Germany quit on V-E day. The momentum of war production...
Farther north, the 32nd Division and the 1st Cavalry Division (dismounted) were engaged in equally bitter, hand-to-hand combat, but drawing steadily closer to Valencia and a junction with the 77th. Japanese lines were beginning to crumble. But it had taken the bloodiest fighting of the second Philippine campaign to make them crumble. Leyte was not the pushover it had seemed when Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines nine weeks...
...Princess and the Pirate (Goldwyn; RKO) takes shovel-nosed Bob Hope to the bloodiest corners of the Spanish Main in the spirit of unabashed poltroonery that has become his principal stock in trade. From the moment he pokes his head through an introductory title to announce that he plays a coward to the moment when he gazes apprehensively at a gibbet being erected in his honor and murmurs queasily, "Slumber lumber," Hope makes it clear that his gallantry is mighty small-caliber. When his beautiful co-captive (Virginia Mayo) on the pirate ship snatches away the protection of her wide...
...week Berlin radio jittered with its strongest superlatives. "One of the war's bloodiest struggles," "mammoth offensive," "grand assault," "unheard-of numerical superiority," "monstrous force...