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...Robert Reid was just outside Notre Dame when the shooting started. He recorded the scene in a memorable broadcast. Cried Radioman Reid: ". . . The General is being presented to the people. He is being received. . . ." There was noise of shots, shouts, screams, a loud yell: "They have opened fire." Then silence. Reid had been caught in a rush of Parisians. His microphone was temporarily disconnected. He went on: "That was one of the most dramatic scenes I have ever seen. . . . Firing started all over the place. . . . General de Gaulle was trying to control the crowds rushing into the cathedral. He walked...
Divorce Revealed. Of Navy Chief Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, "The Ghost of Guam"; and Mary Frances Tweed, 27, mother of two; on Aug. 8, six years after their marriage (his first, her second), three weeks after he came home on furlough after 31 months of hide& -seek with Guam's Jap occupation forces, (TIME, Aug. 21); in San Diego, Calif. One of the allegations: she insulted the wives of other servicemen...
...Hills. Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, was one of 400 sailors and 155 marines stationed on Guam when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Tweed had just taken an examination for a rating as a chief radioman and was still waiting to hear the results when the Japs came...
...radioman at Pearl Harbor adjusted his earphones, tapped out "Go ahead." The first message came in: "This news is from Radio Guam. Nothing heard from you since 1941. Greetings...
...civilians). There are bits of irresistible comedy (best: the florid, juicy Italian-tenor version of the song; the whooping refinement of its rendition by Frau Hermann Göring II, re-enacted at Berlin's Kroll Opera House). There is intelligent characterization (best: a subtle young Nazi radioman who introduces Lili Marlene at the height of the German victories, later had to announce major German defeats). But Lili Marlene is the least satisfying of Director Jennings' pictures to reach the U.S. Too many mush-mouthed, romantic studio shots dilute its realism and imaginativeness. The British propaganda version...