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Treasured Tatters. G.I. tastes, says Editor Stern, have followed those of civilians pretty closely, except that the soldiers have little use for war books. In a list that includes most recent bestsellers, many classics and a few anthologies, the most popular to date is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. One...
¶ The late summer drive from the Channel ports to the German border had been so rapid that the troops were forced to travel light. Extra clothing and blankets were cast aside. At the front, house-to-house fighting and barbed wire wore uniforms to tatters in less than a...
Last week a battered old hulk was towed into Sturgeon Bay, Wis., to the din of saluting tugboat whistles and cheering throngs along the shore. The ugly hulk was the 600-ft. ore freighter George M. Humphrey, rusty red from 15 months under water. Her pilothouse had been crushed and...
In the ears of the citizens still rang the crump of heavy bombs, the thunderous rumble of pulverized masonry settling into rubble. Shattered were the post office, the Palais du Commerce, university buildings. The cathedral's stained-glass windows hung in lacy tatters. It was not the U.S. guns...
However, since the G.O.P. Convention I have shorn my long hoary beard, discarded my rationed tatters, lifted mine eyes unto the hills, for I hear thunder in the Catskills, and it "ain't" duck pins, either.