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...imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin pools of despair, and now that they were looking at her, something like a sneer crept into them...
...Explosive." One man did not leave the tortured slope. Lively, pint-sized Professor Giuseppe Imbo, director of the Vesuvian Royal Observatory and foremost authority on the volcano, clung to his tiny workshop halfway up the mountain. Through four days & nights he scarcely ate, barely slept or washed. Alone he crept to the boiling crater's edge, closely charted the lava flow, checked his seismograph by kerosene lamp...
...Prime Minister was half through his pedestrian, almost defensive report to Britain and the U.S. last week. Suddenly, into an uninspired voice, crept the thrust and crackle of the fighting Churchill. In one by-election after another, ungrateful Britons had turned down Churchill candidates, criticized Churchill politics. He was angry. His anger burst, red-hot, out of thousands of British and U.S. loudspeakers...
...Resistance. The rest was silence. Now & then a report crept through. Edouard Herriot, under strict house arrest in his 72nd year, was very old, very tired. Americans interned at Vittel had a glimpse of him when his Vichy gaolers brought him to a villa in the old watering place. Rumor said that he was suffering from an incurable ailment. One day the jailers hustled him on to Nancy, not far from the German frontier. There, some time in the fall of 1943, death came to Edouard Herriot, but not to his words, not to his memory...
After Naples, Lang was with our men all through the bitter fighting along the Volturno. As the German barrage crept yard by yard along the river bank "three times soldiers I had talked with less than three minutes before were injured by artillery fire"-and he was in Bari last December when the Luftwaffe sank 17 Allied ships in "the costliest sneak attack since Pearl Harbor...