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...Idea Was Fun: Visitors to the gallery found themselves in a world as whimsically engaging as first-rate Disney. The pre-Columbian art of the Indians of Western Mexico had a freshness of its own; none of the stern beauty of Aztec forms or the glum formality of Mayan relics. When the Indians were not laughing at themselves, they were good-naturedly caricaturing someone else. The dominant note was exaggeration: humpbacks had overpowering humps; in erotic figures phallus outweighed...
...Five hundred glum pickets ring the plants of the big-four packing houses. Wrapped in heavy clothing, they huddle around bonfires, crowd into hastily built shacks and drink coffee out of big kettles heated on bonfires. They jump around, swinging their big arms to keep warm. The bar in the union hall locked up its whiskey and beer 'for the duration,' sells only coke and tomato juice. If a drunk appears on the picket line he is yanked out, hauled home, cussed...
Chrysler Corp. President Kaufman Thuma Keller was just as glum. Said Keller: Chrysler costs are up 20% since 1942, and reconversion from war production is costing $75 million for machinery and plants. Unless U.A.W.'s wage increase is passed on to the public, Keller predicted that Chrysler, too, would soon go broke. General Motors' white-thatched C. E. Wilson had the same tale...
...Ruins, craters, burned-out tanks, smashed guns, tramcars riddled with holes, half-demolished trenches, heaps of spent cartridge shells, fresh graves, corpses still awaiting burial, masses of white flags, crowds of glum and hungry inhabitants lie before our eyes. . . . On Friedrichstrasse ... it is impossible to pass on foot. . . . The pavement has sunk into the ground. The ceiling of the subway which runs just below the street has caved in. ... The Tiergarten is burning; trees crack and writhe in flames. The Reichstag is smoking. . . . The new Imperial Chancellery, Hitler's Berlin residence, is also burning. The windows are blocked with...
These are but two of the hundreds of G.I.s, some glum, some gay, whom Sergeant Walter Bernstein ran across in his three years as a correspondent for the Army's newspaper Yank. From a draft board in Brooklyn, Correspondent Bernstein's career in the Army carried him to Georgia, to Italy, and finally into German-held Yugoslavia, where he became the first U.S. newsman to interview Tito. In a tense chapter of Keep Your Head Down he describes his seven-day march to Tito's headquarters and his meeting with the Partisans. But readers of Bernstein...