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...have rendered a great public service in obtaining from your correspondents such vivid and unforgettable descriptions of seemingly indescribable conditions at Buchenwald, Belsen, Erla and Nordhausen. . . . May I add a reference to a leaflet which the Germans widely distributed among our armed forces as they were advancing from the West? This leaflet was entitled Brain Splitters for Suckers Only. On the second page of the leaflet appears this question: "And have you talked to an eye witness of German atrocities?" Your article is an answer to that question. On the second page of the leaflet they add this observation...
Anna Lucasta. Vivid, well-acted drama about a Negro streetwalker and her family (TIME. June...
...selected by Navy Captain Edward Steichen from among thousands taken by Coast Guard, Marine and Navy photographers. Once the highest-paid advertising photographer in the U.S., shy, hard-working Steichen was commissioned in 1942 to head a special photographic unit, coached the men who shot the film for the vivid, action-packed Fighting Lady (TIME, Jan. 22). Like Fighting Lady, the Steichen-edited Power in the Pacific is a superb example of the technical achievements of modern photography. His chief contribution is the incredible enlargements, which lost nothing in the blowing-up process. Working with a picked staff of technicians...
When Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery made a flying trip to England after the Normandy landing, one of the first things he did was to read Faces in a Dusty Picture. This brusque, vivid novel about the Libyan campaign was written by a 35-year-old veteran named Gerald Kersh-in civilian life an author, bouncer, traveling salesman, debt collector and professional wrestler; in World War II a Hemingway-mustached Tommy in Britain's oldest (1650) regiment-of-the-line, the Coldstream Guards. Now Author Kersh has followed up his dusty Faces with a lusty tribute...
...kind of fault, because the play resorts to outside enlightenment rather than selfrevelation; it tells rather than shows. The result is more like a solved cryptogram than a thing of flesh & blood. But, if not a satisfying experience, The Deep Mrs. Sykes, with its verbal claws and vivid theater, is very often a stimulating...