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...stands as one of the best, and perhaps the longest, in U.S. General Staff history. He was first in his class at West Point (1903). With his father, Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur, he was an observer in the Russo-Japanese War. In World War I he organized the famed Rainbow Division, became the youngest (38) division commander in France. In 1919, at 39, he was the youngest Superintendent of West Point in history...
...shield's black background is the "darkness of Nazi oppression." A Crusader's sword across the shield has "red flames of avenging justice leaping from its hilt." Above the sword a rainbow, made up of all the colors of the United Nations, stands for hope. Over the rainbow a field of blue represents "peace and tranquillity for the enslaved people of Europe...
With no advance publicity at all, Simon & Schuster last week published The Rainbow ($2.50). It is the $20,000 "Stalin Prize novel for 1943." Most U.S. readers do not associate Stalin with literary prizes and had never heard of the award before. They learned with surprise that The Rainbow (which most people confused with D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow) sold out a first Russian edition of 400,000 copies in two days.* A Russian movie has also been made of the book...
...Book. Of her novel ex-Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who is himself an author (Mission to Moscow), says in a foreword: "The Rainbow [is] typical of modern, wartime Russia. First [it] is the work of a woman. Second, it is the work . . . of a Pole. Third, it is the work of a writer who has taken an active part in the political as well as literary affairs...
...waking hours of Lady in the Dark are sleek and engaging, with plenty of highly varnished dialogue and playing. Editor Elliott's dreams and the flashbacks to her youth come in every color of the rainbow and a few besides. She dreams (amid dry-ice mist and nacreous space) of getting a magnificent blue dress in which Mr. Milland paints her portrait-a cruel caricature of her old-maidishness. She dreams (in white and gold) of climbing a gigantic wedding cake while vast choirs shout her praises. She dreams (in candy colors) of a circus which turns into...