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...soldier and a man" and deplores the passing of chivalry. Field Marshal Earl Wavell rates him "among the chosen few, among the very brave, the very true." And Biographer Young rather gratuitously remarks that he just can't help liking German generals. His Rommel is well-written, brisk, and touched with flashes of nice humor; in every other respect, it might have been written by a German general...
...Brisk and smiling, President Truman strode into the House of Representatives this week to face a joint meeting of the Congress and read his annual message on the State of the Union. He was speaking to the critics of his foreign policy-though not always too clearly-and over their heads, more clearly, to the "Soviet imperialists" who were trying to subvert the world with their "destructive works...
Arriving in Melbourne with her Aussie bridegroom, brilliant, brisk Author Barbara (Policy for the West) Ward, 36, a former governor of the British Broadcasting Corp., had a compliment of a kind for the country. Said she: "Australia is lucky to have no television. I hope you go a long time without television. Civilized people don't need...
Disturber of the Peace, by William Manchester. A brisk if not fully penetrating biography of H. L. Mencken; best when it lets Mencken himself do the talking (TIME...
Last week Harold Stoke, at the end of a failing mission, announced that he was fed up, would resign as of Feb. 1. With brisk efficiency, the board of supervisors picked a new president: Mississippi-born Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, 61, able wartime commander of the VIII Army Corps in Europe, since 1939 (with time out for war service) L.S.U's comptroller. Harold Stoke's new mission: to take "some time out for battle fatigue," then look for another...