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...eight years of serious medical art behind her. Among other things she has 1) illustrated a book on orthopedic operations for Dr. Arthur Steindler of the University of Iowa, 2) illustrated surgical and medical works for doctors at Johns Hopkins, 3) made hundreds of sketches of Dieppe and Dunkirk plastic surgery cases in Britain to illustrate a forthcoming book by Boston and Oxford's Dr. John Marquis Converse. One day last fall she got sick & tired of being always serious in her medical drawings, began her surrealistic compositions "as a sort of psychotherapy...
...spearpoint, all the desert way from El Alamein to Tunis. Son of a Hertfordshire solicitor, product of Eton and the Coldstream Guards, Sir Oliver was thrice wounded in World War I. He fought with World War II's B.E.F. in Flanders, still has a score to pay for Dunkirk...
...onetime fighter superiority over western France, and directed the air support for the Dieppe raid in August 1942. Admiral Ramsay is a tough, slit-mouthed, energetic officer who well deserves his nickname "Dynamo," pinned on him in 1940 after he had directed the almost-miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk (code name for which was "Operation Dynamo...
...soldiers and Germany's commanders, including Marshals Erwin Rommel and Albert Kesselring, had a great deal to do with the Allies' troubles. The Germans in Italy did not know that Germany had lost the war; they were fighting as shrewdly and fiercely as the British fought after Dunkirk...
...average Tommy, with a Dunkirk and the blitzing of his home behind [him], is doggedly resigned to seeing the war through.* The Russian has certainly hung on as though he understood what a Hitler defeat would mean. [But] to the doughboy all this fighting is only a distasteful prelude to returning home. Nothing else...