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Grenades or Flame. Viewing the scene later, I could only marvel that any men got past those pillboxes. Their openings were mostly to the north and south-naval gunfire might have destroyed them had their vents been exposed to the sea. But somehow these incredible marines had swept past the pillboxes, tossing grenades into them or shooting flame into them as they inched uphill towards the airfield...
...beat on the long swing from Portland to Pensacola was the mechanical marvel, Byron Nelson (TIME, Oct. 23). At Gulf port, the two finished in a tie, but the man with the flawless form bowed to Slammin' Sammy in a 19-hole playoff. Afterwards it came out that Snead could have won the day before if he had not penalized himself a stroke-for nudging the ball on the all-important last hole (no one saw it but Snead...
...Average Man is now beloved and honored. When he is in uniform, Ernie Pyle and a host of other correspondents watch him, note his casual expressions, solicit his opinions, record his hopes and fears, marvel at his fortitude. When he is in civilian clothes, the public opinion polls eagerly tabulate his beliefs, his prejudices, his tastes. Few contemporary novels reflect this revolution in the status of the Average Man so sharply as Lower than Angels. Its hero is a character Sinclair Lewis might have drawn: Marvin Lang, son of a Staten Island delicatessen merchant. The story records his progress...
...plague on this naive oh-ing and ah-ing about the democratic marvel of holding a national election in the midst of a war. At its best it is as suspicious as boasting about the virtue of one's wife. At its worst it implies that the Administration magnanimously granted a privilege when it permitted citizens to go to the polls...
Back in New York, bulletins were so few that studio broadcasters had to talk their throats dry. CBS News Chief Paul White plugged in his teletypewriter-lined news room, let listeners hear the buzz and bells that filled it. His ace Manhattan newscaster, Bob Trout, was a marvel of glibness and endurance. Trout's performance was matched by Robert St. John, backstop for NBC News Head, William Brooks. TIME Views the News, on the Blue was consistently cool and factual...