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...Child Is Born. The sky had clouded over. It grew colder. Major Bill Rosson, of Eugene, Ore., whose men were not yet committed, came over the edge of the ditch. He sat down and bubbled: "We just pulled into that haystack ahead at 3 a.m. when an old woman in the farmhouse started having a baby. Doc Rhodes delivered the brat. He weighed about seven pounds-a nice kid. The Italians wanted Doc to name the kid and Doc decided to name him after me. We got in an interpreter and named him 'Guglielmo.' That...
...were unable to watch the races followed them in the newspapers. The London Times published the daily bumps in chart form that, to the uninitiated, looked like sabotage in a wire factory. Each bump was minutely described, with a recording of the exact spot where it occurred-such as Haystack Corners, Free Ferry, The Willows or The Gut -instead of fractional times or distances. Not uncommon were such headlines as "Jesus bumped St. John...
From the walls of the room, 150 framed caricatures of John L. Lewis glowered at the audience. From a raised platform Angry John in the flesh glowered even more ferociously from under his haystack heap of grey hair. Beside him, in silence, sat his longtime associate Philip Murray...
Whatever its shortcomings as a kid-glove social document, This Above All is a remarkably good love story. WAAF-Girl Joan Fontaine, who has what it takes to play lady-in-a-haystack, quietly meets her man (Mr. Power) in the blackout, goes away with him to a seaside resort, where he leaves her, eventually rejoins him for keeps after the Luftwaffe has almost battered his brains out in a London bombing. It is a restrained, sensitive, appealing performance-a tribute to beauteous Joan Fontaine, to the intelligent direction of Anatole Litvak, and to the painstaking coaching of Director Alfred...
...Washington office, John Lewis sat enthroned before a map of the world, his shoulders blotting out whole oceans. Of the Western Hemisphere, only Alaska was visible over his white-streaked haystack of hair. He had assumed a new role: military strategist. If only, he muttered wistfully, "it were in my power to command...