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...line, it is said, that football games are won, and no one knows this better than Caldwell. When the Kazmaiers and Smiths performed so brilliantly for him, there were always Brad Glasses and Frank McPhees to do the heavy work up front. But this year, there appeared to be little brilliance in the line--that is, up to the first game...
Among the many fine stylists and phrasemakers on the magazine, Brad Darrach at 34 has developed into one of the best. But when he came to TIME ten years ago, with only brief journalistic experience (on the Providence Journal and Baltimore Sun), he recalls that he couldn't put together enough good material in a week to fill the Miscellany column. And after he wrote his first film review, Darrach's senior editor returned it to him with the notation: "Sure, sure, but what was the movie about...
...boys" were Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. And Brad Smith had been assigned by TIME to retrace their journey, photographing each landmark just as they first saw it, at the same time of year and the same time of day, from the same vantage point of mountain peak or river bed that they had described in their journals...
Mental Fig Leaves. Hero Brad is a paper shuffler at SHAEF, and a first lieutenant. Haunted by the glacial respectability of his New England future after the war, he wants to have an adulterous fling while he can. But his low-level imaginings rarely embrace anything more than a brief, businesslike interlude with a party girl. Instead he meets Val, the grave-eyed brunette daughter of an invalided British brigadier, fully Jane's social opposite number and twice as good-looking. They fall immediately and desperately in love, and exchange guilty confidences about his wife and her friend Wynter...
Halos Askew. Against this backdrop, Brad and Val drift towards a hoked-up farewell. Brad volunteers for a suicide outfit with a D-day dawn mission, only to find that his last-minute C.O. is Val's other lover, John. As they make the beach yards apart, both men nearly buy it-but live to come out of it with a reluctant mutual respect. Back in England a few days later, with sacrificial halos slightly askew. Brad and Val call it quits: "She said, 'Turn your head away.' He knew she was leaving...