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...U.S.S.R. has so far ignored Olympic games. But sports isolation has started to fade. Reported TIME Correspondent Dick Lauterbach from Moscow last week: Russia and the U.S. have a score of games in common (including basketball), and Soviet sportsmen are anxious to match skills with U.S. athletes, would welcome visits by American teams...
...windows along the way to stare and stare again with a hungry look. . . . Half an hour later, well-fed, they limped back to their places, all aglow. Resuming his place at a window, a soldier said: 'I gotta keep looking back. I keep thinking maybe it will fade out, like a movie...
...drugstore. Then one day the boy achieves the certitude that World War II is everybody's business. He enlists in the Navy. His father sees him go off to war, waving good-by for the last time. At this point, where memory and the boy's life fade away together, the father's life must go on alone. Grandfather explains to the brokenhearted father that the boy's brief, easygoing, generous, small-town life was worth dying for because it was worth living. That night the father goes back for the first time to the store...
...idea of Festung Europa-a continent to be held everywhere, at any cost-was probably never much more than propaganda, and it began to fade months ago. There were reports that the Germans planned to leave most of Italy and Yugoslavia, all of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete and their Mediterranean islands outside their main line of continental defense. An inner fortress, to be held as a last barrier around the Reich, would include northern Italy and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and a Russian front running through eastern Poland. But, said these reports, the Germans would surrender lower Italy and the other...
...program, it decided, should lead off with the "V for Victory" theme from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony blown on a trumpet, then fade in with the D Major theme from the Choral Finale of Beethoven's Ninth (played by low strings). After a break for announcement of the occasion, the orchestra should swing into the complete choral finale. The rest of the program should consist of music from various United Nations: China; Britain (represented preferably by German-born Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); France (represented in part by Belgian-born Cesar Franck's Pièce Heroique...