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Said the London Times in its epitaph: ". . . Fellow guests in a Stratford hotel, watching with covert awe the two breakfasting together, all seem to have derived the same impression. It was the professional wit who listened and laughed. It was his wife who made the jokes. This was a true reflection of their life together. Mr. Shaw valued her criticism, knowing it sprang from a genuine love for the arts and a shrewd native wit. She, for her part, was a devoted Shavian. . . . She shirked none of her fancies from youth to old age, and she faced the last...
Spitfire (Goldwyn-RKO-Radio) can serve as a fine epitaph for gentle, charming, intelligent Leslie Howard, whom the Nazis this month shot down in the Bay of Biscay (TIME, June 14). Howard produced, directed and played the lead in the film. The picture itself is a finely tasteful, faithful biography of one of Britain's newest and least-known heroes-the late, great aircraft designer Reginald Joseph Mitchell. As designer of the tactically superior* Spitfire fighter, Mitchell was one of a few men-Churchill was another -whose foresight had much to do with saving Britain and her allies...
...apparent that the hope for the underground, and for all Italian democrats, lies first in unconditional surrender, followed by military occupation. After that, if the Allies are wiser than they were in North Africa, the Italian people can speak for themselves. On that day Mussolini's epitaph can read...
...London News Chronicle wrote the epitaph on the grave of earlier hopes : "Nothing less than a full-scale sea, land and air assault can blast (the Jap) out of Burma." From Chungking, TIME'S Correspondent T. H. White filed a dispatch through U.S. and Chinese censors: "It is no secret anywhere in the world that the decision of the Battle of Asia will be fought in Burma some time...
When he followed two other crack men to a soldier's fate - Brigadier General Harold H. ("Pursuit") George had been killed last year in an accident at Darwin - air men spoke for him the air's understated epitaph of full praise: "He was a good man to have around...