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...units of the U.S. infantry. After a day of freedom, the men are recaptured by Germans and packed into a freight train bound for the fatherland. They manage to subdue their Nazi guards (negligible opposition), don Nazi uniforms (good fit), and bluff or blast their way through Florence, Verona, Milan, and a burning fuel depot into Switzerland. A train pursued by troops and planes across enemy terrain can be counted on to boil over with excitement from time to time, and one battle scene filmed at dizzying altitudes in the Italian Alps brings the action to a peak...
...depict the far-out cover subject the editors called on an artist of far-ranging talent. Rumanian-born Saul Steinberg studied psychology at the University of Bucharest and architecture at the University of Milan, was a U.S. Navy officer in World War II, and has gained an international reputation for his vividly imaginative drawings. He is best known, perhaps, for his regular contributions to The New Yorker, has also been published in LIFE, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Harper's Bazaar. In his deceptively simple linear technique, he gives life to Paul Klee's definition of drawing...
...native of Milan, Italy, Gorini, who in 41, graduated from the University Pavia with honors in, 1925 and in 1927 of a prize for advanced work in organic chemistry. His research career was decided for 15 years before and during third War II because his opposition the fascist Italian government made academic career impossible...
During his 15-year absence from academic research, he worked as an industrial consultant. During the war he also asked for the Italian underground. After the war, at the age of 43, he resumed research career in Milan. He has been at the Harvard Medical School since...
Smeared all over the Italian press was a series of "re-examinations," to which readers responded with enthusiastic letters. "He was shy, notwithstanding all his arrogance," wrote ex-Editor Mario Missiroli, of the weekly Epoca. Concluded Domenico Bartoli, of Milan's Corriere della Sera: "His intuition in evaluating the weakness of his adversaries was penetrating and exact." Paolo Rossi, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, went further. "One must admit," said he, "that Mussolini's conqueror's march [on Rome, when he took power from Victor Emmanuel III in 1922], considered as an art work...