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...miracles that sometimes momentarily halt a war, recognize her as a figure of mercy transcending their strife. Both sides call for a ceasefire. Dr. Helga delivers her package to her enemies, staggers back toward her German compatriots, collapses upon the bridge. The cease-fire was ordered too late. A stray bullet-little matter whose-has mortally wounded...
...depths of Russia and back again. It opens in the war's last days as Germany is crushed between East and West. Asch, who has risen from the ranks to become a lieutenant of artillery, is part of a disorganized unit surrounded by U.S. troops. A stray Nazi colonel named Hauk and his sinister aide, Lieut. Greifer, order an attack on a crossroads "with everything that can still crawl." Its nonmilitary purpose, correctly divined by Gunner Asch, is to let Hauk and Greifer escape...
Through all this move the grisly minor characters of Faulkner's theater. The druggist is running a dirty-picture seance. Bad niggers chase good niggers with carving knives, fall together into the same ditch and talk philosophy. Four grotesque little Indians (the offspring of a stray Snopes and an Apache woman) turn up out of nowhere, settle down in a cave and very nearly burn alive a citizen who tries to civilize them...
Died. Roland H. Clark, 83, author (Gunner's Dawn, Stray Shots) and hunter-artist whose realistic etchings, watercolors and oil paintings of wild fowl made him a favorite with sportsmen; in Norwalk, Conn...
Moreover, for the first time this year, the Crimson came up against a team that was a little faster than it was. The Wolverine linemen that were left were all extremely fast and often beat the varsity defensemen to a stray puck in the Crimson zone...