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Ever since Russia came into the war we have had top-flight correspondents there-first Walter Graebner, our No. 1 man in Europe; then Richard Lauterbach; and finally John Hersey. Each was a shrewd and trained observer who brought home with him a uniquely firsthand feel of Russia at war to share with our other editors -and to give authenticity to all our reports on that enigmatic country...
...When Hersey was in Moscow his cables to TIME & LIFE ran as high as 16,425 words a week-enough to fill almost half of TIME. So a lot of news should be flowing across the Atlantic from Thompson and his staff from...
Best-Seller. The Prophet sold only 1,100 copies in the first year. Then it began to go. Twenty years later its overall sales totaled 300,000. Last year it was Knopf's next best seller (60,000 copies) to John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Since Gibran's death a committee of 40 Bsherri townspeople has collected his sizable royal ties, devoting them to charity. (One royalty check came back endorsed by all 40.) Unable to pay them because of the war, Knopf has accumulated $20,000 for the committee...
...planned to raise a memorial to 8,000 Polish soldiers who had died at Cassino, Lublin's new Army, some 250,000 strong, were equipped with U.S. trucks which had been lend-leased to Russia. Said the Lublin Government's President Boleslaw Berut to TIME Correspondent John Hersey: Lublin's Army is "already larger than the French Army. It is growing all the time...
This week TIME Correspondent John Hersey cabled that Mr. Perkins' Mission was "the strangest literary coincidence of the war. Korneichuk wrote the play last spring. Eric Johnston and William L. White visited Russia during the summer. In the play there are no similarities to Johnston and White either in physical appearance of the actors or in characteristics as revealed by the lines. But to Muscovites, 'Mr. Perkins' is Eric Johnston and 'Mr. Hemp' is Bill White. And that is how it will be, as long as the play runs...