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...best-selling tell-all (Out of the Night). The German-born ex-agent for both the Gestapo and Ogpu (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941, et seq.), onetime California jailbird who was pardoned just before Pearl Harbor, then jugged on Ellis Island six months ago as an undesirable alien, was freed on parole, faded back into the night...
Last week, while Bob McConnell was beaming over Polectron and Promika, politics-an old Aniline bugbear-rose up to plague him. His principal stockholder was scouting around for a new board of directors. The stockholder: Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley, who owns 97% of Aniline. Talk was that the new board chairman would be Manhattan's razor-smart Victor Emanuel, a director of Standard Gas & Electric, of which versatile Leo Crowley is board chairman...
...knew what this would do to Bob McConnell. But what really titillated Wall Streeters was that Victor Emanuel, who is also an investment banker, might get a chance to underwrite a deal selling Aniline, with its $64,000,000 of assets. This is the juiciest piece of alien property in Leo Crowley's portfolio. The question: Has Crowley finally decided to sell...
Rommel was now retiring into country beautifully adapted for siege, long prepared for just that. He was retiring into country alien both to his own and to Montgomery's men, who were desert fighters, not mountaineers. And he was retiring with his back to the wall of Europe. His men would fight fiercely here. Instead of another Dunkirk the British might find another Sevastopol as the Germans drew back on Tunis and Bizerte...
Confused Soldier. "Private Breger'' is a wide-eyed, overspectacled, freckled little soldier, clumsy, meek, confused but undismayed. Cartoonist Breger likes to think of "Private Breger" as typical of all the nation's millions of little men, to whom soldiering is alien, but who cheerfully acquiesced when war came. Through Private Breger, Cartoonist Breger translates Army life into civilian terms. One cartoon showed a squad of soldiers being stopped by a game warden, who demanded to see their hunting licenses. Like all artists, Breger has small idiosyncrasies which trade-mark his drawings. He always draws officers with jutting...