Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought when he made his deal with the Germans. He still sits hunched behind his oversized desk in his oversized office; he still speaks respectfully of the thoughts and wishes of the Marshal, meaning his own. He still turns now & again to admire the full length portrait of his younger self which hangs behind his chair, and to dream of the time (1941) when he led his troops into Odessa. But no longer does he really believe that brutal, brassy Baron Manfred von Killinger, Hitler's resident emissary, is serious when he asks for the Marshal's advice...
...receiving his medal from small, bearded President Mikhail Kalinin, and smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...
...Hammer had hustled down to Gimbels' groaning floor, and confidently expected eager buyers to snap up a Louis XII carved walnut dresser ($269), a pair of carved 17th-Century Italian stone urns ($598), a suit of 16th-Century Pisan armor ($2,397), Van Dyck's portrait of England's Queen Henrietta Maria...
...Nordics . . . invaded America's east coast. . . . That is how, one fine day, a Norwegian Storm Trooper came to be on the steps of the White House at the head of his patrol. He entered between mighty pillars into a large half-lit vestibule. A portrait of George Washington hung on the wall. A broad marble staircase led to the upper floors. On each landing hung a gigantic star-spangled banner. Then suddenly he stood in front of a glass door. The President's study! But . . . chairs were flung about . . . papers were strewn across the floor. . . . How quiet...
...recalled. Between these two episodes it packs: 1) a good deal of concrete information on the errors and accomplishments of the administration of the occupied village; 2) an unforgettable, sometimes sickening picture of the degradation of the Italians after 20 years of Mussolini; 3) a lopsided, bitter portrait of a loudmouthed, fire-eating, bullying U.S. general, who resembles General Patton; 4) a plot. The work of 29-year-old LIFE Editor John Hersey (Men on Bataan, Into the Valley), based on his war-reporting experiences in Sicily, it has an impact like the kick of one of the mules...