Word: irises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NO WOMAN'S WORLD (338 pp.)-Iris Carpenter-Houghton Mifflin ($3).
When U.S. trucks and tanks hit Omaha Beach, says Iris Carpenter, drivers "cried and vomited" as they crunched over the bodies of G.I.s fallen in the first infantry waves. It was sickening and terrible, but the beachhead held firm.
Blonde, British-born Iris Carpenter, thirtyish, BBC commentator and war correspondent (London Daily Herald, Boston Globe), says that she held firm, too. Although ready to grant from the start that it was no woman's world, she thought a "newspaper girl" had as much right to report what was...
IRIS LIPTON
The psychiatrists, with yeoman help from the boys in the pressroom, explained George to Chicago by saying that Iris creator, Bill, was a duo-personality-that Bill Heirens had made George up the way children invent playmates. By such a device, they said, Bill Heirens could remain an average son...