Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here in France don't even know what in the hell is going on at our very doorstep.) Our G.I. Stars & Stripes is reaching us quite steadily, but unfortunately it has yet to find a writer who can report as successfully as yours. Typical of that is the remark of a brother G.I. at our first mail-call on French soil. We were in a semicircle about the mail orderly when someone deep in the ranks bellowed "TIME mag at last! The first bastard who intercepts it gets a bayonet where it will hurt most...
...markets which have made him one of the highest-priced figures in modern painting. Said he once: "Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly impostors." One museum has even gone out of its way to quote that remark. That was Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, chief overseer of Mexico City's Picasso show...
...Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest of us did, and the Russian general and I rolled cigarets for him, pasting them with our tongues. Mine would always fall apart in Churchill's fingers, which caused him to remark, "Pribichevich, the Russian spit is stronger than yours...
...TIME, there's enough cheap talk being thrown around without having you encourage more of it by printing it for a laugh. Your July 3 issue introduced the no-nonsense girl, Pfc. Eunice Shepard, who saluted the "deskbound male Marines" at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with the icy remark: "I joined the Marines to free a man to fight. Who's leaving...
...Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty showed Negro slaves galloping to sanctuary in the Union lines. Of A Ride, Painter Johnson wrote: "A veritable incident . . . seen by myself at Centreville, on the morning of McClellan's advance." Most of the Civil War pictures bore out a remark once made by Ulysses S. Grant to a contemporary war artist: "We are the men who make history . . . but you are the men who perpetuate...