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...younger brother's sweetheart. As past becomes present in Alan's probings, the war gives Janet her first whiff of life, and then steadily chokes it out of her. Both the men Janet cares for-Alan's brother and her father-are killed. Just before Dday, Janet mans an ack-ack gun and lucklessly brings down a party of Czechs and Poles fleeing the Nazis in a German plane. After that, she is seized by a plausible, if not entirely convincing, urge for expiation. Despite its sad undertones, The Breaking Wave is a novel in which...
...prototype" for Ernest Hemingway's Montgomery*-gulping Colonel Richard Cantwell of Across the River and Into the Trees, was named president of Market Relations Network, Inc., Manhattan publicity firm. A West Pointer, "Buck" Lanham was given command of the 4th Infantry Division's 22nd Regiment shortly after Dday. The division, with Hemingway attached to it as a correspondent, saw plenty of action (e.g., the Normandy breakthrough, Hurtgen Forest, the Bulge), and Lanham received a chestful of decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross. After the war, he became staff director of Defense Secretary James Forrestal's Personnel Policy...
...DDay, Tuesday, July 20: The last day of Mendès' 30 dawned sunny and hot. In the morning, Mendès finished his talks with Pham Van Dong. Under pressure of Mendès' stubborn insistence on the 18th parallel as the partition line, Van Dong had moved from the 14th parallel to the 16th. For the first time, Mendès indicated that he might yield a parallel and Van Dong said he might wait for more than a year for elections. At 4 p.m., Eden, Molotov and Van Dong gathered at Le Bocage, another French...
Some of the details include running the Teletype machine, proofreading copy ("including correcting my spelling," adds Collins) and taking dictation, sometimes at a marathon pace amounting to 35,000 words on a cover story. One of her longest dictation stretches was on Dday, 1944, when correspondents were alerted to report local reaction. It was an all-day running story, with Mary sitting in the office taking the copy on the phone-"one of the few times when life in a news bureau was like life on a newspaper in the movies...
...DDay: Overcast and grey. At 1600, Giap orders gunfire against the five remaining French strongpoints in the 12-by-4-mile valley. At 1630, black-garbed Communist infantry come at a run for the southern strongpoint. It is only a feint. Half an hour later 105-mm. fire hits the northeast and southeast strongpoints, and Communist infantry moves into trenches near the French barbed wire...