Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great burst of overdue news about the desperate, last-ditch struggle to hold the Dutch East Indies, the U.S. Navy last week told the story in detail. Its narrator was six-foot, whip-lean Commander Paul Hopkins Talbot, leader of the squadron of four 1917-model destroyers that needled the convoy again & again & again, and got away without dropping a stitch...
Pink-cheeked, hustling Vierling Kersey, 52, runs his principality-a school district almost as big as the State of Rhode Island-with an attention to detail much like that of New York City's fire-chasing Mayor LaGuardia. He dashes from school to school in a big, black car, pops into classrooms, hobnobs with his 250,000 kids. When he became superintendent of schools five years ago (having been a teacher, principal, State superintendent), he found his school system full of Progressive Educators. He not only encouraged their experiments but thought up a few himself. But since...
...authentic, Agent in Italy is the only firsthand description of the organization and workings of this great secret movement yet published in English. It is also the first revelation in detail of the extent to which Italy has become a Nazi-occupied province. And from the internal evidence alone, it may be that Agent in Italy is authentic...
...spread, S. K. began to cultivate a dual personality. "After all," he says, "I had none of the assets of a Mata Hari. So I played the role of a man who understands nothing at all. . . . My incredible ignorance provoked people-Italians as well as Germans-into giving me detailed explanations of matters I wanted to know. ... To carry this off I had to plan every conversation in the greatest detail, word for word, even to facial expressions." For S. K. did not underestimate his task. It was: to out-Gestapo the Gestapo, already very active in Italy. Says...
...novelist Harsanyi lays out this wholesome career in great detail-more, perhaps, than some laymen will care for. He loves Rubens' early years in Italy, under the patronage of the Duke of Mantua; the shrewd, rewarding sequel in Antwerp, where his studio became a factory; the courts at Paris, Madrid, London, The Hague, where, while he colored canvas by the bolt, he also did diplomatic errands in the service of his native Flanders...