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...PLEASURE OF THEIR COMPANY (653 PP-)-Edited by Louis Kronenberger -Knopf ($5). Subtitled "An Anthology of Civilized Writing" this is a connoisseur's selection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, in which "urbanity, irony, elegance, skepticism, sophistication, wit, play a leading part." Twenty-one' polished pieces by Petronius, Lucian, Voltaire (all of Candide), Saint-Simon, De Maupassant, Congreve, Pope, Henry James (all of Washington Square), Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Henry Adams, etc. Excellent choices, in a finely printed volume...
Growled Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott: "Here's one for you, Adolf." Then he pressed a button. A mile away, 59 concrete buildings of the I. G. Farben's Kauf-beuren gunpowder works were blown to smithereens by G.I. dynamite charges...
Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. said: "All good things must come to an end. . . ." Erect and sad, he handed his beloved Third Army flag to his successor in command, Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., a General who had fought with his mouth closed. The band played Auld Lang Syne. Some 400 soldiers and WACs, also erect and sad, watched him march stiffly away...
Soon to arrive for duty still unspecified was able, leather-lunged Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., late of the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy...
Report from the Front. In 1943, Dr. John Lucian Savage, top U.S. Bureau of Reclamation civil engineer, who had gone to Chungking at Chinese invitation to study potential hydropower sites, asked to visit the Yangtze gorge. The bleak area was a fighting zone, but the Chinese Army guaranteed Savage safe conduct. In quiet broken by occasional rifle shots from the sleeping front, Savage charted possible dam sites except those above Ichang at the mouth of the gorge, which was in Jap hands...