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Chivalry in war is a rapidly declining convention, but it dies hardest among what Ernest Bevin has called the "trade union of generals." Field Marshal Auchinleck, in a foreword to the book, salutes Rommel "as a soldier and a man" and deplores the passing of chivalry. Field Marshal Earl Wavell rates him "among the chosen few, among the very brave, the very true." And Biographer Young rather gratuitously remarks that he just can't help liking German generals. His Rommel is well-written, brisk, and touched with flashes of nice humor; in every other respect, it might have been...
...When the final chapter of Joy Street was dispatched," writes Frances Parkinson Keyes in the foreword to her new novel. "... I was too completely exhausted to feel the slightest elation ... I could not believe the ordeal was over; it had become one of those nightmares which apparently has no end, but goes...
What's more, the pedestrian naturalism of Barrie's golfscapes is relieved, now & then, by a whiff of romantic feeling. "I have allowed myself the privilege," he says in the catalogue foreword, "of interpreting each hole in the time of day, or season of the year, that seemed most appropriate. For instance the 5th hole at [Clementon, NJ.'s] Pine Valley was painted on a grey morning, after an all-night rain. Pine Valley is a rugged course, as all golfers know, and this is reached with a 218-yd. shot uphill. The green . . . is as formidable...
...develops that the hospital harbors not only a fake doctor and a murderer, but also a cozy illegal traffic in narcotics. To square a beef by New York City authorities, Actor Conte announces in a foreword that the story never really happened. The movie itself then makes the point perfectly clear. Though it never rises above routine crime fiction, the film gains considerable interest simply from Bellevue and the city streets and the Manhattan skyline...
...Paris sophisticates were delighted with the show. Orson Welles, Painter Georges Braque and Poet Paul Eluard were all on hand at the opening. Another poet, Jacques Prévert, had written a catalogue foreword which described Miró as "a smiling innocent gardener who strolls about in the garden of his dreams among the wild flowers of Multicolorado." It was a strange country, but Miro's multicolored Multicolorado did exert a cloudy charm on sympathetic visitors-just as children's paintings often...