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...millions of people will perish" in a new war. he proclaimed early in the week, almost incoherent with excitement, as he waved his arms at a "friendship" rally in the Kremlin for Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, visiting boss of Red Rumania. "There will be no open cities, no front, no rear, if nuclear bombs are unleashed." Khrushchev brutally promised to send rockets raining on Italy's orange groves if war came; he had also included Britain in his target area, and now, to the mocking laughter of the satellite sycophants around him, said, "As you know, the roar...
...September 1942, the German Sixth Army attacked and occupied the industrial city of Stalingrad on the Volga River, dislodged all but a vastly outnumbered body of Russian troops on the river's west bank. Both sides suffered staggering casualties, but the Russian rear guard held on bravely until reinforcements arrived. In a midwinter counterattack, the Russians trapped the German army, which surrendered in February 1943, and the course of the war turned...
...discussion I had with Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. shortly after Bill Mauldin's encounter with him, he expressed his disapproval of Mauldin's portrayal of the front-line soldiers: the cartoons could influence too many rear-echelon soldiers-all the way back to England, if not the U.S.-into affecting similar sloppy appearances in order to look like combat soldiers...
...production. He picked up his advance Government check for $3,049, used it as a down payment on a new, bronze $6,100 Cadillac, promised to pay the balance with another $3,451 check due from the Government at season's end. He dressed up the rear end of his new car with a sign reading
...feels, might have pulled it off, but Director Michael Anderson fails shabbily. An instance is the simple and necessary business of withholding information. When Hitchcock wants to hide the face of a stalking murderer from the camera, he invents some reason-perhaps a half-drawn shade in a rear window. Anderson merely points his lens toward anonymous trouser legs and fires away. No matter how hard the cellists play, this is cheating...