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...first book about the invasion of Normandy, from D-day to the fall of Cherbourg, represents a remarkable publishing feat. Largely written in France, it was assembled and refurbished during a fortnight in London, dispatched to the publishers piecemeal. The last chapters reached the U.S. by courier less than three weeks before publication...
...believe in executions, least of all for political reasons, and Ciano was, after all, Mussolini's son-in-law and former Foreign Minister. But the priests came and the prisoners realized that they were to die. Ciano agreed to sign a petition to the Duce. A courier flew to Lake Garda, where Mussolini was staying. But that night he was not there, nor did he appear until late next morning, after the five had been executed...
...know for four days. Then they learned only a little. It was not censorship this time, but a breakdown in communications. Radio transmitters for the press, sent in on jeeps, had been washed out in the landings. The intricately planned system for sending copy to England by courier never got going, for lack of couriers...
...Field's hyperthyroid newspaper, PM, was hard at work as an Army Intelligence officer, seldom had cocktail time. Publisher, now Lieut. Commander Barry Bingham was bossing the Navy's press office at General Eisenhower's headquarters. Herbert Agar, ex-editor of Publisher Bingham's Louisville Courier-Journal, showed up cool and well groomed at luncheons and unveilings whenever his boss, U.S. Ambassador Winant, was otherwise engaged...
...comfortably in nothing but cowboy boots and a suit of heavy underwear. He likes to eat in Gus Popupolis' restaurant, whose sign reads: WHERE GREEK FEEDS GREEK. Hackberry has annual huntin', shootin' and bird-dog competitions. When there's a wood-cutting contest the Hackberry Courier likes to announce that "Mr. Polecat Crittenton . . . offers to chop his fiancee against any entrants. . . ." The people of Hackberry are shrewd, but reasonable...