Word: heros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal Tito in their Sept. 12 issues. Phillips has had the Marshal's confidence from the time he made a long, grueling march with a Yugoslav Partisan guerrilla column campaigning against the Nazis in 1944. Tito awarded him the Order of Merit. Later, when the Marshal was made "Hero of the Yugoslav People," Phillips was the only foreign guest among the 24 people at the ceremony. For his part, Phillips says he gave Tito the first can of American beer he had ever tasted...
Brownie was a pal of the sheriff. The papers, on the other hand, were after him hot & heavy. So were a lot of the citizenry. In fact a bipartisan committee headed by Admiral Thomas L. Gatch, the retired Pacific war hero, was trying to kick the sheriff, diamond-studded badge and all, out of office by way of a recall election...
After Rajk, Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, chief of staff of the Hungarian army, stepped to the courtroom microphone. As he talked, listeners recalled last May Day when General Palffy, resplendent in dress uniform and riding a white horse, reviewed his troops in Hero's Square. "Good morning, comrades," Palffy had shouted. A thousand voices answered "Good morning, Comrade General." Palffy had drawn his saber to salute the flag. The saber slipped out of his hand, clattered to the ground...
That is the main thing that bothers the hero of ex-Physicist Mitchell Wilson's long-winded novel (a Literary Guild se lection for October). The hero's other worry: that private interests are hypnotizing the U.S. public with the A-bomb while they quietly muscle in on Washington to seize control of atomic energy. Hardy readers who plow through all of Lightning's small type will learn what he does about it and, incidentally, what life can be like for an atomic physicist these days. There seems to be frustration aplenty...
...Hero Erik Gorin quits his instructorship at a Midwestern college in disgust at university politics. He takes a better paying job with a machine-tool company, where he buries his ethics and tries to wiggle into a managerial position. But Erik's big pitch is a big flop; his employer outmaneuvers him. So he signs up with the Government as a research physicist, helps split the atom and make the bomb possible. In postwar Washington (and still panting after the big money 5, he is about to team up with malefactors of great wealth who want to kidnap atomic...