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Since 1940 I have received screen credits-for Waterloo Bridge, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Command Decision, and others-most of them favorably reviewed by TIME, yet my name was never mentioned. The same omission occurs in your Sept. i review of Me and the Colonel. The screenplay was written by S. N. Behrman and myself. Forgive my vanity, but tell your readers of my existence...
...protest against comparing Napoleon's vacuum-cleaner sweep of European art with the wholesale robbery by Hitler and Goring. Napoleon, Bazin insists, was motivated by the lofty ideal of creating a new and universal European culture, and was within the ethics of his time. But after Waterloo, Napoleon's conquerors saw Napoleon's operation uplift in another light, stripped the Louvre of 5,233 precious art objects, left little more than 100 canvases and 800 drawings...
Marble from Melos. The Louvre treasures that visitors see today represent the titanic effort made to recoup from the post-Waterloo low point. Rubens paintings from the Luxembourg palace were brought in to fill the gaps; French archaeologists sent back to the Louvre whole collections of Egyptian and Assyrian art. In 1820 the French Ambassador to Turkey was able to pick up five fragments of marble on the island of Melos for 1,200-1,500 francs ($230-$285). Pieced together, they became the Louvre's famed Venus de Milo...
Tanned, handsome Antarctic Explorer Vivian Fuchs arrived in London with his igman team at Waterloo Station, where he lit up a convivial pipe for photographers, who caught his wife Joyce in a mood that suggested he ought to change his tobacco. Later, "Bunny" Fuchs and his company dropped in on Buckingham Palace, where Queen Elizabeth knighted him (for leading the group on a 2,000-mile trek across the frozen continent), presented medals...
...essential fact made him, in power, a master of decision and, in the hindsight of history, a master of the precis. Never has so much been contained in so few words. He begins the last volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples in 1815, leaving Waterloo (reluctantly, it would seem) behind him to take on the task of shaping the whole course of the British Empire and the American Republic in the last century into one sonorous and coherent story. He succeeds magnificently. More cautious historians-the economic-theory men, the specialists in constitutional law, the nationalists-will...