Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours later another shift of MPs took over. The new sergeant made Fechner stand motionless with his face to the wall. After an hour and a half, the old man, an ex-concentration camp prisoner, collapsed. The sergeant ordered him up again. "You Nazi pig," he yelled, "for twelve years you raised your hand in the Nazi salute, and here you don't want to stand up!" At 2 a.m. the three Germans were turned over to the German police...
...Long Island doubles tourney he wrote last week: "In the opening game [John Hay Whitney] . . . standing near the penthouse on the service side . . . drove the ball into the winning gallery on the hazard side for the deciding point. ... In the final game ... he boasted the ball to the main wall to find the dedans on his return of service. Then, changing sides to play off chases, he found the nick no less than three times with his service. The crowd shook its head in amazement. . . . [Whitney] was having the time of his life...
Even after war's end, Shanghai, greatest trading city in China, was cut off from foreign trade by a financial barrier as insurmountable as the Great Wall. Last week, TIME & LIFE Correspondent John Walker reported that this wall has finally been breached...
Chicago was "a vast, unorganized lunatic asylum." There Author Miller saw an Indian, in full regalia, selling snake oil in the shadow of "the great monument to chewing-gum lit up by floodlights." On a wall was chalked, in letters ten feet high: GOOD NEWS! GOD IS LOVE! In Milwaukee and St. Louis (where "the true morbidity of the American soul finds its outlet"), the houses "seemed to have been decorated with rust, blood, tears, sweat, bile, rheum and elephant dung." Pittsburgh was "the crucible where all values are reduced to slag." Detroit "can do in a week...
...Manatee, a tale of love and whaling-men ("Violent . . . corrosive. . . . Jabez Folger['s] soul was possessed by an evil demon. . . ."), was the year's freak success. Nancy Bruff, wife of a Wall Street broker, hired crack Press Agent Russell Birdwell to put over her first novel. With a nude heroine in the form of a ship's figurehead enlivening its cover (see cut), and pretty Author Bruff. décolletée, enlivening its advertising. The Manatee soared high on best-seller lists...