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Died. Alfred Kornfeld, 26, TIME correspondent in Germany and at the Nurnberg trials, former U.S. Army master sergeant, who was thrice wounded, won the Silver Star in action; after a jeep accident while on his way from Berlin to Niirnberg...
...them: keys to the door of his house, the pantry, dispensary, clothes closet, private desk, passenger elevator; to the door of his office building, his office door, the third intermediate door ; to his typewriter, office desk, locker. Cigarets have to be kept in doubly-locked separate chests, and the jeep has to be locked six ways from breakfast, involving keys to the steering wheel, ignition, hood, spare tire, gas tank and tool locker...
...commissioned an ensign, served ten months as a gunnery officer on Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys. Later, in the Solomons, he nearly lost an arm when his jeep overturned. When he recovered he got a job as press censor at Sydney. Scripps-Howard tried to spring him out of the Navy after Ernie Pyle died; luckily for Ruark, he stayed in, and was spared the ordeal of trying to follow in Pyle's footsteps (TIME...
Deals No. 2 & 3. AVCO was planning to take over completely three companies which it already controls: Crosley Corp. (refrigerators, radios, television and broadcasting stations), New Idea, Inc. (farm machinery) and American Central Manufacturing Corp. (jeep bodies, kitchen sinks & cabinets...
...sights and incidents along 2,000 miles of Europe's streets and roads, perhaps the most revealing was in a square in Metz where, about midnight, two Americans in a jeep paused to ask a bearded old man the road to Saarbrücken. He said he did not speak French. Nor German either. He was a Russian. One American who spoke Russian repeated the question. The old man could not help. He had fled Russia in 1920, had lived in Poland till 1939. When the Germans took it, he went to Germany. Later he drifted into France...