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...hardest place in the allied world to get background news out of is Russia. Reports of major battles come through all right - but the intimate facts about the Russian worker and about Russia's industrial mobilization have been closely guarded secrets since before Stalin came into power...
Objects in the foreground are widely separated on the screen. Those in the far background are the same in both pictures. The result is a realistic impression of distance and shape...
Kohn, author also of various books on the intellectual background of the War, is a professor of History at Smith College, while Wild, another author on the subject of international affairs, is at present lecturer at the Navy War College...
...Lieut. General Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson. Like General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, who was squeezing the Axis from the other end of the North African coast, Anderson has been a soldier most of his life; like Sir Bernard, is a pious man on whom the mark of a religious background is deep. Said he to his soldiers: "Let us unashamedly and humbly ask God's help in our endeavors and strive to deserve it." Like many of his devoted, knobby-kneed Scotsmen and war-hardened Englishmen, he is a veteran of Dunkirk...
...just completed another assignment-a 12½-ft.-sq. mural for a Negro church at Shiloh, Va. This is one of the rare occasions that a Negro congregation has commissioned a white artist to decorate its church. The mural, unveiled with impressive ceremonies, forms the background to the church's baptismal pool. For this job Painter Binford was paid in produce. "The local Negroes," he explains, "who have spent months posing for and watching me paint this mural, inaugurated for my benefit and unknown to me a 'Harvest Home' in their church." Now the Binfords have enough...