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Most illuminating are the shots made under the direction of brilliant, free-lance New Zealander Len Lye (Kill or Be Killed, Colour Box), which make up the bulk of the film. Lye's Dublin streets, obsessed faces and magical landscapes (made largely in bleak Galway) capture depths of mysticism which are beyond the reach of most words...
Last week Allied correspondents got their first look at Marshal Tito [Josip Broz and his Partisan stronghold in Yugoslavia.* On a bleak mountain airfield, ten miles behind the front, an Allied plane one starry night had deposited TIME Correspondent Stoyan Pribichevich, Reuters' John Talbot and two photographers. Churchill's son, Major Randolph Churchill, met them, started them in a captured German Volkswagen, toward Marshal Tito's hidden headquarters. This is Correspondent Pribichevich's story...
...home Catherine had hoped to find strength to start life afresh. Instead, she found a bleak world living on a dry fodder of deathly recollections - little Cousin Bessie (died, aged eight, of a sur feit of ripe peaches); Heir Jack Lewis (broke his neck horseback riding) ; Confederate Soldier Joe (one leg amputated, the other gangrenous). The Negro servants were not much better; old Maria, whose favorite son was serving a life sentence for murder, simply believed that "if people only had the moral courage to quit putting food into their stomachs the Lord would solve all problems by taking them...
Outside Washington's vast, unfinished Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul the late spring stalled along last week in a bleak drizzle from a lowering sky. Inside, flowers were banked and lights shone down on ten Bishops who laid their hands on Dr. Angus Dun, consecrated him Washington's fourth Episcopal Bishop. Among them were the Archbishop of York, first English prelate to officiate at a U.S. consecration in 73 years; Dr. Andrew Y. Y. Tsu, Bishop of Kunming, first Chinese Bishop in U.S. Episcopal history to assist at a consecration; the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop Henry...
...bishop thinks the charm of his bleak, almost treeless island has grown on servicemen. Many have told him they plan to return for postwar visits. Says he: "American soldiers are going to be Iceland's biggest advertisement when the war is over...