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Your statement (TiME, March 26) that the Duke of Windsor is "technologically unemployable, an obsolete man" shocked many of us in the film industry. We take issue with you on your flip and curt dismissal of a man who is one of the colorful figures of our time. As spokesman for a group of actors, writers and directors, I have today cabled the Duke of Windsor offering to form an independent producing company to star him in a pic-turization of his own life story, or a story of his own choosing, or the post of technical adviser...
...such shot, already made famous in newspapers, an unarmed Japanese crouches dazedly out of his hole directly in front of two Marines, starts to run away, and is slammed to earth by a bullet in a death as curt and ghastly as any ever publicly released. In still another, one of two stretcher-bearers falls shot, and the head of the wounded man bangs to the ground. It is not possible to describe the sickening jolt in the heart and stomach which these and other shots give; it is equally impossible to escape the jolt when you see them...
...raising dust clouds. Farther ahead were smudges of black smoke where heavy bombers were still beating up the target area. Suddenly, out of the smoke, the now bridgeless Rhine appeared, flowing placidly. In the lead transports gum-chewing paratroops were tense. From the jumpmaster in each plane came a curt command: "Stand up!" Then, "Hook up! . . . Stand in the door! . . . Go!" They went tumbling out, 15 men in ten seconds...
Suggestion: A "rewriteman" for the administrative and lawmaking bodies to remove this obstacle of "officialese and legalese" and make things say what they mean in TIME'S "curt, clear and complete...
...curt dispatch came last week out of France: old Aristide Maillol, one of the leaders of modern sculpture, had been killed in an auto accident near his home in Banyuls, on the Mediterranean near the Spanish border...