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...correspondent accredited to the Mediterranean theater. As soon as he reached Egypt he began practicing parachute jumps, to be ready at a moment's notice to be dropped on his native land. In one of these jumps he fractured his left foot, and for a while he was heartbroken at the thought that the accident might cost him the assignment in the Balkans...
...fails to realize the far-reaching effect on him of what is going on in the rest of the world. . . . Perhaps the conscience of America is dulled; perhaps the people are not willing to bear the sacrifices." He confessed to "a sense of sickening" and to feeling "a bit heartbroken...
When the Fitzgeralds move in, their dog trembles, howls and "deserts them. Their cat claws the air and rips out a wailing snarl at nothing. Just before dawn they are awakened by the heartbroken sobbing of a woman, whom they cannot locate. And when they make friends with Stella (pretty newcomer Gail Russell), granddaughter of the man they bought the house from, candleflames wither, an odor of mimosa pervades the room, the young girl rushes out and is barely prevented from diving off a cliff. She cannot explain why. The answer, as Stella and the Fitzgeralds discover when they stage...
...Russians, most of them elderly, their faces drawn, stiff, heartbroken, seek among frozen corpses for those who were dear to them. In an intensifying series, the shots show: a dead mother and baby, so frozen that the child's head stands rigid in the air above her bosom; an old woman, crying and stupefied, trying to limber the upthrust frozen arm of a dead...
...doing it also honored the memory of Ch'ii Yuan, high-minded poet and statesman of Chu, the feudal state that covered much of central China some 2,200 years ago. Ch'ii sought vainly to ferret corruption from his government, was slandered and exiled. Heartbroken, he composed his famed poem Li Sao (Dissipation of Sorrow), then on the fifth day of the fifth moon drowned himself in the Mi-Lo River. Legend relates that kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races. But in Chungking last week the festival...