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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Style. Like the British armies, the Second's commander, Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, has learned and grown in World War II. He was a Lieutenant colonel in 1939. In those days, the usual type of top-ranking British general was majestic, rugged, slow-moving and often slow-thinking. The current type is trim, compact, quick-moving, quick witted and willing to learn - like Montgomery, Alexander and Dempsey. Dempsey is the tallest of the three (six feet) but he is slender...
Through to the Shore. After that, the Japanese on the 4th Division's front were so weakened that the stalemate was broken The 4th got into gear with the 3rd and 5th. The drive for the north shore was speeded from a slow crawl to a slow march. On the 19th day of the battle for Iwo, a 28-man patrol from Company A of the 21st Regiment (part of Major General Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division) broke through to the northeast coast and slid down the cliffs to the beach. To General Schmidt, they sent back...
...worth of Southern California's flowering farmland for the give-away price of $25,000. Boddy ("the Ferdinand of the publishing business") wanted a lively marketing outlet for the flowers from his 165-acre horticultural wonder ranch at La Canada, Calif. Smith had rescued his newspaper from a slow circulation death with dazzling promotion campaigns. If Smith could sell the Daily News that was, reasoned Boddy, he could sell anything...
...painters, fame comes easily and early, with the rolling drums of ballyhoo. This week Manhattan is having a look at a one-man show by Julian Levi, who has built himself a reputation the slow, hard, un-pressagented way. A slight, soft-spoken man with a fierce walrus moustache, Southpaw Painter Levi weathered the depression as a WPArtist, has since sold his work to 15 ranking U.S. museums. His quiet, low-keyed canvases now bring from...
...sketch pad wherever he went-even when he ventured into Paris' high-kicking night life. Unlike many a French-influenced U.S. painter who works his way toward the abstract, Levi plunged early into abstractions and progressed back toward a sort of poetic realism with surrealist overtones. A slow worker who produces less than a dozen pictures a year, he finally got around to his first one-man Manhattan show just five years ago, when...