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Smith's career was closely meshed with that of Dwight Eisenhower, a man he served in peace and war. Ike called him "the general manager" of World War II in the European theater. It was a well-earned title: as Ike's chief of staff, Smith had as...
No other play of Shakespeare has a more strongly unified theme. Troilus puts is most clearly, in a characteristically double statement, when he says "that the will is infinite and the execution confined, that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit." It is the disparity between...
Mauldin's originality hatches only after the most stringent of professional routines, of which the morning parboil is but a part. Four hours of preparation, four hours of execution go into each cartoon. Arriving at his cluttered Post-Dispatch office about 10 in the morning, Mauldin reads the freshly...
Torture & Betrayal. A must for the general reader in the West today is Thomas' account of the international brigades and the hallucinatory propaganda that surrounded them. Sixty thousand young Europeans (mostly French, but 2,800 Americans and 2,000 British were among them) fought in the international brigades or...
The crime stories smell a little purer today, the crusades run a little longer, the bathing beauties show a little less skin; and it is not likely that the News will ever sneak another camera into Sing Sing prison to snap an execution, as it did in 1928 when Murderess...