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...read in Correspondent Frank Gibney's first-person account from the battlefront, the war in Korea was only four days old when he became TIME Inc.'s first casualty. He is now out of the hospital and back on the job. You may recall his timely appraisal of the Korean situation in our June 5 issue. Before he became head of our Tokyo bureau, Gibney had served four years in the U.S. Navy, where he learned Japanese and was aide and flag lieutenant to Admiral Robert M. Griffin in Japan...
Adriana is the ripe, first-person singular heroine of The Woman of Rome, a long, languorous novel by Italy's most trumpeted living writer, Alberto Moravia. U.S. readers may well ask what all the critical tizzy is about. In The Woman of Rome, Moravia has blended poverty and lust with considerable technical skill, but, given Adriana's temperament, his bid for deeper meanings, e.g., human helplessness caught in life's iron grip, was doomed from the start...
...Jungle Is Neutral is packed to the boards with incredible adventure and impressive evidence of human fortitude, but it is written without a note of excitement, understated to the point of monotone. For that reason, and by the simplicity of its statement, it makes most first-person war books seem almost shrill...
...transfers from Washington) turned up in the new edition of the New York Social Register, along with Mrs. Winthrop ("Bobo") Rockefeller. But a new edition of a Columbia University faculty cookbook, published the same day, showed that General Ike had not lost the common touch. It contained his folksy, first-person, column-long recipe for vegetable soup, (sample subtlety: "Take a few nasturtium stems, cut them up in small pieces, boil them separately . . . and add about a tablespoon of them...
...Government had imposed a tight censorship on all communications-except for unaccountable slip-ups like Correspondent Mac Johnson's prearranged daily telephone call from his paper, the New York Herald Tribune. The call came through on schedule the first night of the insurrection and, with Dozier holding a candle for him to read by, Johnson got off a first-person account before the error was discovered...