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...assignment to Europe - John Osborne . . . From Egypt and the Middle East comes a TIME correspondent who has been on the Dark Continent all his life, most recently in Cairo -who knows Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Tripolitania and the Sudan intimately and uncomfortably - South African-born John Barkham . . . And from buzz-bombed Britain comes the man who has been our top correspondent there almost continuously since 1938 (except for his five critical months in Russia as head of our Moscow office and the month he spent jeeping across North Africa with Montgomery's triumphant Eighth Army) -London Bureau Chief Walter...
...dingy streets in the Citadel quarter, policemen with fixed bayonets ringed the court. Inside, British sappers had searched the courtroom from top to bottom for mines. On the crowded courtroom benches the red tarbooshes bobbed up & down. The whispers of the perfumed mascaraed women rose to an excited buzz. Then the two handcuffed prisoners were ushered in-short, stocky, red-faced Eliahu Bet Tsouri, his arms defiantly akimbo; tall, pale, black-mustached Eliahu Hakim, his slender fingers tightly twisted round the iron-spiked bars of the dock...
...tough enough to be flying a cargo of explosives over the Hump from India; it was worse than that when one of the depth charges in the cargo started to buzz. Pilot J. E. Zerbe radioed his home base for instructions. Base replied soothingly: ''Nothing to worry about-depth charge...
...industrial hives of northern England had all but demobilized their air-raid defenses. The people, reading of buzz-bombings in southern England, felt safe and snug in their rows of smoke-smudged brick houses 150 miles and more beyond the usual V-1 and V-2 targets...
...Germans claimed they buzz-bombed Manchester last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), but they didn't hit John Barbirolli. Conductor Barbirolli and Manchester's famed Halle Orchestra had pulled a surprise maneuver. Despite military hell and the English Channel's high water, they were touring Belgium right under Hitler's nose. Britain's ENSA (roughly the British equivalent of the U.S.O.) considered the tour quite a triumph. It was the first time a British symphony orchestra had visited liberated Europe, and it was also probably the most strenuous trip in the peaceable annals of symphonic music...