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Lady Luck. On every game and table, detailed statistics are compiled for each shift in Harold's 24-hour day and seven-day week (the club has been closed on only three occasions: V-E and V-J days and the day of Franklin Roosevelt's funeral). There is almost no guesswork at Harold's. The statistical department, headed by Guy Lent, 55, formerly a chief statistician for Cities Service Co. in New York, knows the odds on every angle of the business. From a quick count of the license plates outside, the Smiths can tell...
llona Karmel spent her late teens in Nazi concentration camps, and when V-E came, her body was wasted and broken. Her spirit, as events proved, was intact. After a prolonged convalescence in Stockholm, llona was admitted to the U.S. in 1948, and last year graduated from Radcliffe. While enrolled in a "creative writing" course given by Poet Archibald MacLeish at Harvard,* she began a novel about her Stockholm experience which so impressed MacLeish that he recommended it to his publisher...
...Adolf Hitler, and mainly executed by Model, von Manteuffel and the SS's tough-guy General Sepp Dietrich. Von Rundstedt knew in advance that it would fail; by then a figurehead, he said, "My only prerogative was to change the guard at the gate." Six days before V-E day, the British captured him at Bad Tölz near Munich. They held him in custody for several years, intending to try him for war crimes, freed him in 1949 on the ground of ill health...
...V-E day came before Commander Schaeffer's U-977 had fired a torpedo. Schaeffer assembled his crew, many of them teenagers, and filled them with scary bilge about what they could expect in postwar Germany-how all its males would no doubt be sterilized and the country turned into a goat pasture. He added another naive touch which he obviously hopes will take in 1953's reader, to the effect that all Allies had fought not out of hatred of Nazism, "as they have pretended-for Naziism ended with the death of Hitler-but of the people...
...Dutch family learned that Pfc. Magee, a lively kid, had left college and joined the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor. He shipped overseas, worked as an engineer in England and along the famed Red Ball Express through France, and got safely through the war. Three weeks after V-E Day, in May 1945, Magee was on duty as a sapper, clearing out old minefields near Bremerhaven. An unexploded mine went off, killing him instantly...