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Died. John ("Honest Jack") Curtin, 60, Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia, policeman's son, onetime printer's devil, revolutionary socialist, trade unionist, journalist and political orator, who marshaled Australia's strength to stand off the Jap, and converted it (in co-operation with his good friend General Douglas MacArthur) into the Pacific war's first Allied bastion; of a heart ailment, in Canberra, Australia. Quiet but forceful, austere but approachable, Curtin was described by Winston Churchill as a " commanding, competent and wholehearted leader...
Last week Printer-Editor Hollands became the first German permitted to publish in the British and American occupation zones. No U.S. censor will see the Narhrichten (circ. 50,000) before it goes to press...
...serve the Nazis. U.S. Psychological Warfare officers found him, when they went looking for a German to help them print a four-page weekly, the Aachener Nachrichten. Soon he was doing some of the editing; Army officers found that it was easier to make an editor out of) a printer than to make non-Nazis out of the available German editors...
...early days when we had only a few editors and only a handful of correspondents and only one printer, there wasn't much to tell you about TIME that could not wait until we could say-it in our letter the next time we wrote you about your subscription...
Rags to Riches. There he persuaded an Italian printer to bring out another book of sketches, Sicily Sketchbook, which sold 5,000 copies to one regiment, earned him $1,800, earned the News $600. He switched from the 45th Division News to Stars & Stripes, with an assignment to cover the war in cartoons. He landed at Salerno. He was wounded near Venafro. He brought out Mud, Mules and Mountains (sale: 300,000 copies, which the Army printed; he made nothing...