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...Beard, A Red. The FBI man asks Santa if he has been "a member of the IWW, the IWO, the OWI, the Friends of the U.S.S.R., the New Deal, the Russian-U.S. Institute." Santa says he doesn't work for Russia-"they've got a man by the name of G. F. Frost." This, the FBI man learns regretfully, is not a spy but Grandfather Frost (Russian for Santa...
Morris Rubin, an alumnus, sums up: "This bunch doesn't feel the compulsion to boast about its conquests the way my generation did. Iwo Jima was all the proof of their manhood anybody required." One well-informed coed says: "As far as smooching, et cetera are concerned, there is considerable smooching-but not much et cetera...
...cover of the pamphlet was the prize-winning photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima along with the words, "Should AMERICA'S College Professors be pro-AMERICAN? A thought-provoking contrast in points of view from Bloomfield College...
TIME'S Robert Sherrod, veteran of New Guinea, Attu, Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, remembers that these stories had as much to do with TIME'S popularity among overseas servicemen as the action reports. Says Sherrod...
...longer made fashionable copy but remained like a departing storm cloud, high above the year's fiction. One of the better pieces of writing about it was Allen R. Matthews' The Assault, a terse account of hitting the beach at Iwo Jima. Worth reading were John Home Burns's The Gallery, a novel of a G.I.'s experiences in Naples, Charles Christian Wertenbaker's story of the French Forces of the Interior (Write Sorrow on the Earth), Godfrey Blunden's novel of Moscow and Muscovites in their grim winters of war and political despair...