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Through the murk of biased reporting on both sides, just one fact shone bright as an ancient Greek fire beacon. Adolf Hitler has an unearthly way, not only of beating his enemies, but of getting his allies into embarrassing wars which make his own successes seem greater. Winter in Finland and the rainy season in Greece were two good examples...
Pounding forward in chase of a third, the Ajax began to ship water through her forward plates, was forced to reduce speed. In the murk before dawn she suddenly came on an Italian squadron of one heavy cruiser and four destroyers. Opening up again at long range, she staggered one destroyer with a shot through the hull. As the crippled destroyer lost way, another slipped her a towline, started spewing out a smoke screen. By now the Ajax (which the Italians claimed to have sunk) had begun calling up support. But before the heavy cruiser York could arrive, the faster...
...later, was a snatch of a CBS broadcast that night by Newscaster Edwin C. Hill, a lurid, present-tense yarn of the long-past sinking of the Republic in 1909 - first major sea disaster in which radio was used as a distress signal: "Fog is all about . . . impenetrable murk . . . hysterical shriek . . . crash and grinding . . . frightening darkness . . . shouts and screams . . . women and children aboard ... C Q D ... C Q D*. ..." As Captain Brown recalled whatever he did hear, "they seemed terribly excited. . . . It made me sick to my stomach...
...Eyck was worth an exhibition all by itself. This tiny (8¾ inches by 6 inches) painting on wood came all the way from the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, where it is valued at $250,000. Until 1922 it lurked, under a heavy scum of varnish, in the murk of Ince Hall, near Liverpool. When the Australian gallery bought and cleaned it, English art-lovers cried aloud to see it lost to the Antipodes. So infinite in detail and so opulent are the Madonna's cascaded red robe, blue tunic and gold embroidered background that the painting seems...
...Holiday (see cut); Joe Hirsch's Two Men (see cut) which, using a very broad, low canvas, catches breadthwise the gaunt intensity of two workers; Jack Levine's Rouault-like Night Scene, where the ruddy heads and hands of the two figures emerge from a blue-black murk like blazing coals...