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...point. On a long, flat stretch of road (used at the moment as an improvised landing strip for liaison planes), he went over the situation with one of his division commanders. Then he started visiting colonels and majors. Sometimes, gesturing at map positions with a stubby forefinger, he made crisp suggestions for trimming lines or improving positions. Sometimes he silently absorbed information, left without a word...
...where he could raise his hands to surrender. As they tore across a paddy field, they turned back to have a last look at their friend. It was just in time to see him cut in half by Red Tommy guns, his feeble, lifeless hands still waving in the crisp summer...
High Traditions. Despite the sensational Post's sensational success, some of its oldest friends were shocked by its behavior. Though they admired Wechsler's crisp, hard-hitting editorial page, they accused him of betraying the Post's high traditions by pandering to the public's lowest tastes on its news pages. Last week the Saturday Review of Literature, a high-minded magazine with a lower circulation (97,866), published a debate between Wechsler and Editorial Writer August Heckscher of the New York Herald Tribune. Subject: Is sex necessary to sell a liberal newspaper...
...ever tended the flames more assiduously or mistreated nature with more zestful enthusiasm than the little barrel of a man with the wonderful name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de la Santisíma Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Seizing nature by the hair, he joyously twists, tears, chops, stretches and mauls her to create new faces never before shown to mortal men. "What is a human face?" asks Picasso. "Who sees it correctly-the photographer, the mirror or the painter? Are we to paint what's on the face, what...
Cooper, in a string tie and Stetson, rides into town to resume his family's feud with Donald Crisp, the local tobacco tycoon and father of Patricia Neal. Teaming up with Jeff Corey, a Connecticut Yankee inventor of a newfangled cigarette-making machine, Cooper ruins Tycoon Crisp, marries his spirited daughter and displays his growing ruthlessness by flexing his jaw muscles and compressing his lip. Along the way are all the standard climaxes-street fights, a shooting, a suicide, fires, foreclosures and pointless lovers' quarrels. At the end, discovering that power corrupts and that none...