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Across the shell-pocked Sangro battlefield (TIME, Dec. 13), Eighth Army veterans saw a dusky-eyed young woman running, heard her sob: "Stop, stop, oh please stop!" Her story: She was Bonita Caputi, American wife of an Italian officer missing in action. A refugee from Nazi terror, she and her baby daughter had lived with villagers in a cave dug in the Sangro no man's land, had survived eight days & nights of shelling and bombing...
Olivia de Havilland possesses all the personal charm of a marshmallow which can also cook. She also has distinct limitations as a comedienne, not much helped when she has to sob about Sonny Tufts: "He's just like a great big long-eared dog." Cinemactor Tufts develops a rich comic realism. His conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip...
Long, Long Ago contains stories, sketches, anecdotes and an occasional verbal sob. Practically everybody anybody ever heard of is cited, thumbnailed, keelhauled, cuddled, cried over or extolled...
...Breaks Me Down. . . ." Patton started to leave the tent, wheeled when he heard the man sobbing, ran back and hit him again. The medical commander was helpless. He accompanied Patton to another tent. The General asked more questions of wounded men. Then he broke into a sob: "I can't help it, but it breaks me down to see you brave boys...
Hearts & Showers. In Falls City, Neb., nine-year-old Jimmy Shafer rode his pony into an auction ring, started weeping as the bidding rose, wept increasingly, set the bidders blubbering, finally caused the auctioneer to sob out: "I just can't do it." The sale was called...