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...interpreting war during a war, found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...
Author Seghers' book is a new kind of novel about the Gestapo and its victims. Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male and Ethel Vance's Escape were dramatic stories of flight from the Gestapo. As a story, The Seventh Cross is just as good-and a lot more. The desperate lunges of its hunted fugitive hero against the constricting circle of Nazi pursuit generate the same kind of breathless fascination with which people watch a rabbit trying to escape the coils of a snake...
...York Herald Tribune's London Correspondent Geoffrey Parsons Jr. cabled his paper: "Americans in Great Britain . . . blushed with embarrassment this morning when London papers reprinted the headlines of several New York evening papers . . . 'U.S. AND BRITISH INVADE FRANCE' . . . 'TANKS AND U.S. TROOPS SMASH AT FRENCH COAST.' All these headlines are outrageous exaggerations of the role American troops played. . . . Actually, not more than several score of American Rangers went along and, although they performed gallant and dangerous jobs, they played a minor role...
Smoke was still curling over Dieppe (see p. 26) when U.S. fighter pilots in the fray returned to their base in Britain and talked to U.S. correspondents. The New York Herald Tribune's Geoffrey Parsons Jr., a notably accurate reporter, wrote...
These words were ink-wet on the newsprint when London dispatches like Geoffrey Parsons' indictment of U.S. fighters arrived; when other dispatches questioned the quality of the Army's heavy bombers. People wondered, and they had the right to ask: "Who's lying...