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...watched the following incident in Berlin's swankiest nightclub, the Femina. At the end of a set of dances a SHAEF-patched U.S. Army captain staggered drunkenly off the dance floor. His 'Is there any son-of-a-bitching Russian in the house?' could be heard all over the suddenly quiet club. His bleary eyes fell upon my guest of the evening, Russian Senior Lieut. Anton Pablov. Making his way towards our table, the American officer shouted at the top of his lungs: 'Come on out and fight, you raping bastard...
...From Femina Morta ("Dead Woman's Corner"), U.S. tanks and infantry on the Anzio front punched within two miles of the Appian Way. Along the whole beachhead front, attacks great & small flared up and died. The Allied forces were still stalled. But in the air, infantrymen saw some cheer...
Rose of the Sea, winner of the Prix Femina for 1939, is about a worn-out ship. At less than seven knots she won't steer; at seven, every plate groans and every loose object "strolls." She is a hopeless, unsalable piece of property, and no one knows it better than her owners, hard-boiled Jerome Jardeheu and his noisome Uncle Romain...
Awarded to Pulitzer Prize Novelist Caroline Miller for her first & only book, Lamb in His Bosom, was France's Prix Femina for U. S. authors. Mrs. Miller will receive no cash prize but a free translation of her novel into French...
Awarded. To novelist Willa Gather, the first Prix Femina Americain for her Shadows on the Rock...