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...firing squad," he cried. "If I had to do it again, I would." He retracted nothing, not even his 1941 words-"De Gaulle is a traitor who commands the scum of the world." He thumped the ledge of the prisoners' dock, proclaimed himself a "patriot," read a seven-hour political harangue against every act of the Third Republic. The court listened wearily...
Background for Broadway. Dapper Dan Walker became a Broadway columnist by accident. Georgia-born and 44 years old, he is a 145-lb. man with thin brown hair and a well-scrubbed look, who manages to look neat even after a seven-hour nightclub tour. He makes a fetish of cleanliness, gloomily anticipates a soap shortage, which he feels will be deliberate ly manufactured by the Government be cause "they'll want us to get used to living without soap so we'll be able to get along with all the foreigners who'll be coming...
...British Mediterranean fleet two years ago-the first reporter in either World War I or II to see action from the bridge of a fighting ship. The result was exciting first-person copy, and two miraculous escapes from death: 1) when Allen and the aircraft carrier Illustrious survived a seven-hour Stuka-torpedo plane attack in January 1941; 2) when Allen, who could not swim, almost went to the bottom with the torpedoed British cruiser Galatea...
...Allen. With half a dozen scoops in his pocket, he brought forth a scorcher last week. When the British released news of the Galatea's loss, they released Allen's full version of the sinking. The original Allen story (TIME, Dec. 29) had told of a grueling seven-hour plane-ship duel. Last week's story began where the other left...
Meanwhile, last week A.P. did not lack for a Grade-A Allen story. With news of his hospitalization arrived his delayed story of a seven-hour battle "off Libya" between Nazi planes and a squadron of British destroyers and cruisers. Machine-gunned by a dive-bomber, his cruiser was repeatedly shaved by big bombs and torpedoes as it twisted in emergency turns and pumped a "hell of fire" at the enemy. The cruiser apparently was finally torpedoed, perhaps by an Axis submarine, and sank. Rescued after 45 minutes in the water, he came through luckily with only painful bruises...