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From Ireland: "This is a pretty place but nothing compared to Iowa. I am sending you some shamrock I picked. It grows just like our clover. . . ." From Texas: "So this is Texas! You grab a towel, fumble for soap and run out of the tent into the flawless darkness of a Texas morning. And what mornings! Ten million stars an arm's length above you. The air is brisk, often biting. The pungent smell of wood smoke is everywhere. . . ." From Italy: "Here I am in an old Italian house and we have a fire going in the fireplace...
...plot that matters, for at last Hollywood has discovered that character study is an end in itself. Character study is, of course, impossible without good acting and it is Barry Fitzgerald as Father Fitzgibbons who makes the picture. Fitzgerald, probably one of the greatest living actors, gives a flawless characterization of an old man teetering on the edge of senility, Bing Crosby, the nominal star of the picture, is wise enough to play second fiddle in the scenes with Fitzgerald. In his own scenes he is just Bing Crosby...
Failure and Achievement. Thus at its eleventh volume Men of Good Will is a monumental failure. Like the Maginot Line itself, it seemed flawless on the blueprints. Like that triumph of engineering, it is full of trap doors and secret passages and it has room in it for an army which, however, might be more useful in the field. Readers may study it with something of the same interest with which the German General Staff and Foreign Office studied the archives of the French Intelligence, Finance Ministry and Foreign Office when they captured Paris. But few will read...
...drive on Poland, Manstein was Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who attacked from the south. Manstein did a flawless job of planning, intelligence and logistics, was promoted to a field commander. In the summer of 1940, his armies broke through the Somme line in France. A year later he became an army commander in Russia when Ukrainian guerrillas killed his chief, Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert. For yet another year, Manstein marched from victory to victory-Odessa, Perekop, Kerch, Sevastopol. But victory was tinged with pain: his two boys, both lieutenants, died in action...
Died. Carl Edwards Johansson, 79, Swedish-born father of hair-splitting precision gauges; in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Be ore he was 32, the shaggy-browed toolmaker hand-forged and hand-polished blocks of steel so internally stressless, externally flawless that they could detect a machinist's error to within 2,000,000ths of an inch (a 2,000,000th is to an inch as an inch is to 31.6 miles). Nicknamed "Jo" blocks, they made possible mass production's interchangeability of parts...