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...without warning, we were on the top of the earth dyke looking straight down into the canal, while the boat crews were hurling their boats down the steep slope into the water. As they hit the water, the Scottish sergeant in charge yelled: "O.K., me lads-who is for th'other side-a bob a ride, a bob a ride." And then we were paddling frantically-except for the two who missed their footing and were being dragged out of the icy water. The disgusted sergeant cursed them heartily, but everyone on the boat laughed-a little hysterically...
Belfort, a stronghold for more than 700 years,* and a formidable assault objective, was thinly held. Histrionic Delattre de Tassigny (his officers call him Le Général de Théâtre) attempted no frontal siege. He sent his infantrymen over the snow-sogged hills to envelop the city on three sides, finally reduced several of its forts by artillery...
Bombs on Buchenwalde. According to Goebbels, Allied bombs fell on the Buchenwalde concentration camp near Weimar, killing Ernst Thälmann, pre-Hitler Communist leader, Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid, Social Democratic Prussian Minister of the Interior in the days of the Weimar Republic. According to the Allies, no raid was made on Weimar that day. According to neutrals, the Luftwaffe did the job, destroyed some 7,500 inmates. But few doubted that 58-year-old Thälmann, who polled five million votes for President in 1932 and has spent eleven years in concentration camps, was dead. Himmler's purge...
...Finnegans Wake (TIME, Aug. 7) ... I suggest that the clue to this nightmare, as well as many other books that in view of the paper shortage should never have seen the light, can be found in the couplet of Pope: Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile...
Paradoxically enough, Miss Jones' inexperience on the stage has stood her in good stead. The unsophistication essential to an accurate portrayal of the inspired peasant girl comes easily to young Jennifer, who has none of the worldliness that might have vitiated th erole had a more experienced star undertaken...