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WHEN the Hungarians first rose in courageous revolt, their Communist government quickly cut communications with the outside world. But Western newsmen were soon shuttling across the Austro-Hungarian border. Their first piecemeal reports came back in fragments as staccato as burp-gun bursts, and first photographs could give only scattered glimpses of the struggle. This week the editors of LIFE present a report in detail and depth of the critical period of the revolution in a book called Hungary's Fight for Freedom, compiled from on-the-spot reports by TIME and LIFE correspondents and other news sources...
...politics, the thundering cannonade of the presidential campaign often drowns out the staccato rattle of small-arms fire along the front lines. Yet it is in the outcome of small, deadly skirmishes in the 435 U.S. congressional districts that control of the House of Representatives lies-and control of the House can make or break a presidential administration. In 1956, with both parties struggling desperately to control the House (the Democrats now have a 29-vote margin), Republicans and Democrats have come up with fresh, fascinating faces to run for congressional office -and to an astonishing degree the newcomers...
...Winchell, who for six weeks has been frenetically plugging himself all over the air and in his column, brought all his hammy radio techniques to his new NBC-TV show, and managed to serve up the fastest variety bill of the new season. Ex-Hoofer Winchell, hat on head, staccato voice spitting old Winchellisms ("The land you love, the love you land"), clowned edgily around a stage clogged with celebrities (Sammy Davis Jr., Joe DiMaggio, Martha Raye, Dorothy Kilgallen) who did nothing much but stand around being celebrities. But the singers worked to good effect: Lola Fisher, understudy for Julie...
...Communist mortar shell back to the boy's home town. LIFE Staff Writer Robert Wallace's script (Soldier from the Wars Returning) was a noble-minded but often pedestrian tone poem which confused patriotism with adulation of the anonymous dead. Cagney's usual clipped, staccato style was properly subdued-especially when, at the end, he tried to work out a salvation for his hero: "Where do you go when you die? The book says, 'In my father's house there are many mansions.' Where? In the sky, under the ground, or in the minds...
...second edition rumbled off the presses at 12:10 a.m. Thursday morning last week, the New York Times radio room picked up a staccato message from the sealanes off Nantucket Island: POSITION 40.34 N, 69.45 W . . . INSPECTING...