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...Life and Hard Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Maine Ballads), left-winging Dramatist Lillian Hellman (Watch on the Rhine), New York Times Columnist Simeon Strunsky (Topics of The Times...
...150th Broadway assignment. Since he first caught the public's eye in 1924 with his sets for The Guardsman, he has designed such varied productions as Strange Interlude, Street Scene, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet, the Gielgud Hamlet, Winterset, Watch on the Rhine, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel. Most theatergoers today, asked to name a stage designer, and most producers out to hire one, would think first of Mielziner...
Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born stage & screen specialist at portraying conspiratorial smoothies, got back from a trip to Europe, confirmed reports that he had seen through the disguise of a Nazi actor hiding out in Hof-Gastein, Austria, and turned him in to Army Intelligence. Watch on the Rhine's anti-Nazi hero was brimful of worry: "The mountains are full of SS men. . . . They are laughing at our demobilization. . . . We are suckers...
...major campaigns: that which began at Southampton and ended in Berlin. Moreover, starting two months after Dday, they had to foam along the course with their noses at the withers of history, constantly forced to revise (first there was an ending in Paris, then one at the Rhine). They also took it on themselves to make the whole job an illustration of teamwork among the men of many services and of several nations. And to give these objectives their just emotional weight, they took on still another hard assignment: to tell everything in terms of "the really important" people...
...martial trade, gives one molecular view of the campaign. A Brooklyn tankman tells of his disgust when his tank runs out of gas, a Canadian describes the hideous fighting around Caen, a Royal Navy man admits his road sickness when his assault craft is trucked cross-country to the Rhine, a Negro cook tells how he learned to fire a bazooka at Bastogne, a primly petulant American supply officer tells of "a very humiliating experience" when Patton's men kept running off the edge of all available maps (and adds that he will be glad to get back...