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...tanks, mobile guns, trucks rolled forward again, across the flatlands and icebound marshes. With blank eyes the men watched the burning enemy tanks, the sidings lined with freight cars from France, Poland, Belgium, Holland, the black-and-yellow posts marked Deutschland, planted on Russian soil by the confident Wehrmacht. With blank eyes they saw Nazi posters on charred village walls: an SS soldier hugging a husky Ukrainian woman, with happy children and goats playing in the background. They had seen such women swing from German gallows, had seen the bullet-holed bodies of such children...
...pages, the editors (Thomas Mann's son, Klaus, and German Novelist Hermann Kesten) have packed scraps of novels, shreds of biographies, short stories, essays, poems by 140 authors from 21 Continental countries. No British writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, Russian Novelist Alexei Tolstoi...
...drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert, Jim Shepley and Teddy White took over the mud-walled kitchen of their lodgings to cook their own really royal turkey...
Last week Marine Major General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, who commanded amphibious operations in the assault on the Gilbert Islands, spoke to home folks who had quailed at the losses on Tarawa (TIME...
...Livers. When Dr. Sano announced her glue last July in the American Journal of Surgery, it was already being used successfully on Temple University Hospital skin-graft patients. In Science last week, she and Surgeon Clarence A. Holland made a new announcement...