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...Backyard. Calcagno himself was born just one remove from Europe. The son of Italian immigrant parents, he grew up on a cattle ranch in California's Big Sur country, first tried his hand at watercolors in New Orleans while on a furlough from the U.S. Air Force. Says he: "I got a big kick out of taking things, shuffling them up, putting in yellow skies." The surprise came when a New Orleans gallery picked up his work, gave him a show. Thus encouraged, Calcagno took a leisurely painting tour of Mexico after World War II, then showed...
Napoleon & Me. The sixth river was the Liffey, in Dublin. There Johnston was married during a brief furlough. Soon he was back at the front, bridging the seventh river, the Rhine, and pushing on into Germany. With the hard-driving U.S. tankmen he felt at home. But he also felt sorry for the Germans, until one day when he came upon the Buchenwald death camp and choked as he recorded the story...
There was reason enough for the child, for Gaston had been able to visit his wife on furlough. But the doubts that the villagers implanted refused to vanish. When Raymond's book appeared, with its story of an adolescent who had got his older mistress with child shortly before her husband's return, Gaston's uncertainty became an incubus. He sent his son away and refused to have anything more to do with the child. Sensitive to every look askance in the village streets, he took his wife to another town and after that to still another...
...TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE, by Erich Remarque, proved once more that Remarque would be remembered for All Quiet on the Western Front. The new one was a plodding, predictable story about a German soldier's love-on-furlough, with inconclusive excursions into the German conscience...
Cigar Boxes. Elisabeth introduces Ernst not only to the hot quick tempo of love on a furlough but to the moral decomposition of Nazi Germany. Her gentle doctor father, informed on by a tenant in his own house, is carted off to a concentration camp, and his ashes are subsequently returned in a cigar box. Ernst charms away such horrors with a symbol, a linden tree flowering affirmatively amid the ruins of his home-town square. Filled with a deep if obscure faith in the future, he marries Elisabeth and goes back to war, only to be killed by some...