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...served two tours with Hitler's armies on the Russian front, had been wounded, and rushed back into combat as a sergeant of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps. He had survived the German retreat from Sicily by swimming a mile to shore after his boat was sunk in the Strait of Messina, and had been badly wounded again and finally captured by U.S. forces near the Volturno River in Italy...
...Sunk in Gloom. The French party, once the most threatening in the West, has become disorganized during the long absence of Maurice Thorez (who was so ill in Moscow last week that he could not appear for Stalin's funeral), and divided over the recent purges of two of its stalwarts, André Marty and Charles Tillon. In Paris, Acting Boss Jacques Duclos put on a black hat and black overcoat when he got the word of Stalin's death, and led France's straggly delegation to Moscow for the funeral. Somehow, as he climbed into...
France's dwindling Communist Party, scrabbling for funds, decided that it could no longer support two daily newspapers in Paris. Ce Soir once (1946) had more circulation (602,000) than any other French paper of the time, but of late it had sunk to a lowly 80,000. L'Humanité, the morning paper, was also sharply down, but "L'Huma" is the certified mouthpiece of Communism in France. Last week Ce Soir announced that it was going out of business. Its editor, Author & Poet Louis Aragon, had an explanation of sorts: "American pressure . . . and the boycott...
...boat 40 days. "Forty days was generous," says Author Schaeffer. But Admiral Dönitz, who lost two sons in the submarine service, kept sending the U-boats out. Schaeffer was assigned to commanders' training school just before the sub in which he had been on duty was sunk with all hand...
Millionaire Howard Hughes, who owns 74% of T.W.A. stock, had sunk $10 million of his own money into the airline, and Equitable Life had risked $40 million trying to bail it out. Under empire-minded Jack Frye, T.W.A. had expanded too fast, and piled up debts; retrenchment had trimmed its employees from 17,000 to 12,000. Morale was zero. Damon helped restore it by assuring the survivors that he carried no ax. Said he: "I'll judge everything by three standards: 1) how good a job is done, 2) how much it costs, and 3) how it helps...