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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall the Conquering Hero" packs a punch. The theme of the picture is patriotism. Against this, Sturges plays love, plain and simple. The conflict of these forces within the protagonist, Eddie Bracken, generously spiced with ridiculous situations and hilarious horseplay, forms the basis of the plot...
...President made little news, but his schedule of visitors was the most pack-jammed in many a week: admirals, generals, senators, congressmen, foreign envoys, plain citizens like Bernard Baruch, Henry Kaiser. He kept newsmen in suspense on the date and place of the upcoming meeting of the Big Three. Would he accept General de Gaulle's invitation to Paris? Perhaps, some day, when he had more time...
Thousands of other U.S. war memorials, better and worse than Kansas City's, have drawn like comments, from plain men and professional critics. Nevertheless, they exist. The U.S., in fact, began World War II with a rigid militia of statuary almost as big as the standing army. Now, with the U.S. entering its fourth war year and some World War II memorials already abuilding, something of a revolt against traditional war memorials has sprung up. The U.S. people have apparently decided that they want no concrete jeeps, or LSTs in marble. By last week city after city had begun...
Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt well knew which was the most vulnerable sector: the Aachen area where Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army had already sunk a spearhead aimed at the Cologne plain. The Germans had watched for nearly two months as the Americans moved in 1,000 guns, massed a whole new army-the U.S. Ninth of tall, bald, bowlegged Lieut. General William H. Simpson...
Postwar Guide. Her first book was Reconstruction in Louisiana. To students now concerned with the postwar world, this detailed account of what happened in defeated Louisiana-where Federal troops (and bullet-headed General Phil Sheridan) remained in occupation until 1877-is invaluable. To plain readers it is a collection of facts which their histories have neglected to give them-including a brilliant sketch of the Negro Governor Warmoth, who was only 26 when he took office. Like Dr. Lonn's next painful subject-Desertion During the Civil War-the book is gall & wormwood to romanticists of the Old South...