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...idolized. In the field his Afrika Korps fought for him with matchless enthusiasm. Even sweeter to a professional soldier, perhaps, was the respect that he inspired in his enemies. Winston Churchill praised him in the House of Commons while Rommel was in the act of driving the British helter-skelter across North Africa. In the midst of the great North African campaign, General (now Field Marshal) Auchinleck acknowledged the Rommel legend in a general order to his troops: he warned them against believing that Rommel was a magician with supernatural powers...
Where I write dramas helter skelter...
Unlike the helter-skelter days of World War II, when a light tank might be powered by any one of four different engines, the parts and engine of the new vehicles will be standardized. They will be powered by the six-cylinder air-cooled Continental engine specially developed...
...expressionists, Barr maintains, but the abstractionists who have the ball. Among Barr's choices were paintings by Jackson Pollock, who dribbles paint onto his canvases from above to create what Barr calls "an energetic adventure for the eyes," Willem de Kooning, who gets equally helter-skelter results with a brush, and Arshile Gorky...
...divided into two zones along a line running west from the southern boundary of Virginia (36° 30' N. Lat.) with 1,948 counties in the northern zone, 1,147 in the southern. Only 82 counties-distributed helter-skelter across the country in both zones-reported no polio cases between 1932 and 1946-the period under study. Of the 83 counties which had had epidemics, all but seven were within the northern zone. But within this zone, no clear pattern was apparent...