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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roast beef, short ribs, fish, seven vegetables, five kinds of bread, ice cream in three flavors, and two cakes. Edna, half a foot taller than the groom, sat quietly at the head table with two red roses in her hair. The happy couple moved on to Newark for another spell of rejoicing. Edna wore artificial gardenias. Over the banquet board glowed a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table...
...Immigration Service arrested him for illegal entry, confined him for a spell to Ellis Island. A year later he was paroled, promptly inducted into the Army. In 1944-45 he served overseas, part of the time with the 24th Infantry Division. Now he is back, with a Bronze Star medal and a book...
...Nature had been kind, but she had first tried men's nerves. There had been winter drought, even several dire days of dust storms. Then soaking rains and an abnormally warm March had sprouted the green shoots in a hurry (TIME, April 22). Then there was another dry spell and again the blessed rains, just in time...
...chief novelty: cool, blonde Alexis Smith, try as she will, fails to inspire the hero to Better Things. With her ladylike beauty, Alexis has made quite a Hollywood careeer of inspiring heroes, especially composers (the film George Gershwin and the film Cole Porter, both under Alexis' magic spell, sat right down and dashed off their best music). But she doesn't quite click with the screen's young Maugham. The poor boob goes right on yearning for that impossible, vulgar hashslinger...
When Clark came to Vienna ten months ago, from the Italian front, he found the Russians already in full and resolute control. They had got over their wild initial spell of raping and looting, and were engaged in the orderly transport to Russia of $100 million worth of factory equipment and raw materials. They had swathed Vienna in red flags (mostly Nazi flags with swastikas removed), were feeding the Viennese less than 1,000 calories a day, flooding the country with worthless occupation marks, and were rapidly gaining an iron grip on Austrian economy...