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Ahead, as far as the eye could see, the black pavement of Fifth Avenue lay smooth and empty between the towers of Manhattan. Millions of people, jammed along the sidewalks, stood waiting to welcome the 82nd Airborne Division. In 42 side streets below massive, grey Washington Arch, 13,000 soldiers waited...
...British veterans, dribbling back into civilian life that is still rigorously rationed and restricted, long for the cozily lighted window that means the unrestricted freedom and comfort of home. Through that lighted window John Boynton Priestley has tossed a well-aimed literary brick. Novelist Priestley (The Good Companions; Angel Pavement) is one of British Labor's most popular literary backers. In a brief (32-page), brusque, best-selling pamphlet entitled Letter to a Returning Serviceman, Priestley beseeches ex-Tommies to beware of their heart's desire-"the charmed cozy circle" of home life...
...From under the roof of my umbrella I saw the washed pavement lapsing beneath my feet, the news-posters lying smeared with dirt at the crossings, the tracks of the busses in the liquid mud. On I went through this dreary world of wetness. And through what long perspectives of the years shall I still hurry down wet streets-middle-aged, and then, perhaps, very old? And on what errands...
Many a wanderer was beyond appeal or succor. Typical was a scene in Berlin's once fashionable Dahlem, now part of the U.S. zone. A grey old man stood on a curb. Beside him a tattered cadaverous woman leaned apathetically against a shell-scarred tree. On the pavement before them lay a long bundle wrapped in a frayed black dress and held together by a string drawn around the ankles and neck of the corpse inside. The three were refugees from the East. They were thumbing a ride out of town to a spot where the dead could...
Fires & Faces. Weegee does a better than ordinary job with the run-of-the-mine stuff-bodies crumpled on the pavement, flames licking a tenement roof, skirts swirling in the wind-but people and faces are what he is after. Heads popping out of windows to see tragedy in the street below, the nervous crowd around the body of a murdered man, a man eating a hot dog, these are the pictures that make the book...