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...American publisher) must be a very different place to work these days than it was only a few months ago (maybe you'll remember the cable from Walter Graebner that began: "A buzzbomb just flew past our window, looked in, saw no crowd and proceeded up the street. Cor, if ever a man suffered . . ."). And before that, of course, there was the airblitz ("You're simply not one of the crowd unless a bomb has blown up in your garden," is the way one of our correspondents...
...Berchtesgaden, last week, Gerhard Herrgesell, stenographer to Germany's Supreme Headquarters Staff, told TIME Cor respondent Perci-ual Knauth the story of the last recorded conferences which the Supreme Command held, in a little bomb proof room deep in the earth under the Berlin Chancellery: "I Must Die Here." Said Herrgesell: "The decisive briefing which determined the fate of all of us began at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of April 22 and lasted until nearly 8 o'clock that evening. At this briefing Adolf Hitler declared that he wanted to die in Berlin. He repeated...
...TIME'S London bureau had a close one. Cabled Bureau Chief Walter Graebner: "The other night one of the bombs flew past our window looked in, saw no crowd and proceeded up the street. Cor, if ever a man suffered...
...write a comedy and yet not fail. . . . The tangle of the plot is not really disentangled at all; it is merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter Pan and an even better Alice in Wonderland, with décor modeled on the famed Tenniel illustrations, and statuesque Dame Sybil Thorndike as the White Queen. Half of London is agog to see Sybil "on wires...
...sitting on the floor talking to Kenney when MacArthur entered. Van Atta started to get to his feet, MacArthur told him to stay put. Politely, Van Atta still strove to rise. The General hollered "Sit down," and enforced the order with a whack on the shoulder that crumpled the cor respondent to the floor...