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...Longest Day, by Cornelius Ryan. Crisp writing and detailed reporting of World War II's D-day make this one of the most tautly exciting of the "day" books...
...lived up to its billing. Shrugging off the rain that swept Yankee Stadium, the Air Force recovered an Army fumble, slammed up the middle for a first-period touchdown on a play that crackled with the power of the old flying wedge. But Army slashed back with its customary crisp blocking as All-America Halfback Bob Anderson scored two quick touchdowns, threatened to turn the game into a rout as the half ended...
...crisp with excitement and expectancy in the crowded Washington hearing room this week when the fact-finding panel appointed by President Eisenhower started its last-chance hearings in an effort to help get the steel strike settled. When the session ended 4½ hours later, Chairman George William Taylor was still showing the unflagging amiability and hopefulness of the professional mediator, but the excitement and expectancy in the audience had soured into disgust at both sides. The fact finders had clearly silhouetted one big fact that the U.S. was discovering on its own: in the 14-week wrangling...
What Hsinhua beams to the free world is carefully audited by Western newsmen because there is so much interest in Red China and so few ways to get the news.* Hsinhua correspondents, using the arts of Western journalism, often send out crisp, brief, seemingly impartial stories, but the party line is never missing: SALT PRODUCTION UP IN CHINA, headlined the Iraq Times, a Hsinhua user, over a recent dispatch. Often the line is tweezered in with surgical care. During President Eisenhower's late-summer tour of Europe, Hsinhua accounts sounded impersonal, but emphasized policy conflicts among the NATO allies...
...Marquand, but brusque revelations carved out like sections of a monument to doom. Unfortunately, he also chooses to interpolate interior monologues, which prove only that he has not read James Joyce well enough. But these form a minor irritant compared to the book's merits -clean writing, crisp description, and a surprisingly accurate sense of the bitter relationships, mostly unspoken, between the enlisted Negroes and their commander. Author Humes is no optimist. Every page of Men Die implies an underlying sense of doom for mankind; yet every page is also immensely readable...