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Back from Rome sporting a dark green Tyrolean hat with a tiny brown brush, Playright Tennessee Williams assured reporters that Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini are "very happy together." As for Rossellini's onetime good friend, Actress Anna (Open City) Magnani: "The sexiest woman I ever...
...most serious brush with occupational disease came in 1932. Dr. Dyer was one of a team which had just about proved that U.S. endemic typhus is borne by rat fleas (instead of human body lice, as in Old World epidemic typhus). Then an infected rat flea in PHS's misnamed Hygienic Laboratory bit Dr. Dyer. That clinched it: he got a severe case of typhus. Previously he had thought of endemic typhus as a mild form of the disease. Now he said: "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff? I talked to the angels the last three...
...Navy, trained in an older philosophy of power politics, were aware that "The War" with Russia might never come, or might be postponed until the odds were heavily against the U.S. The Navy sensed the danger that lay in the Kremlin's ability to start a series of brush fires (a la Korea) which might have to be quenched one by one. They knew that Britain had kept order along the coasts of the world by flying the Union Jack and dispatching naval power when that symbol of order was flouted. This was why Radford & Co. in their basic...
...Brush-haired, 33-year-old Episcopal Minister Robert M. Muir found himself last week just where it seemed he wanted to be-in boiling hot water. A long-time propagandist against the cold war, he had been fired as temporary pastor of two churches in Quincy, Mass. (Christ Church and St. Chrysostom's) for preaching straight down the Communist line...
...anything about this," a young infantryman told him. "I'll fight for my country, but damned if I see why I'm fighting to save this hell hole." Perhaps Reporter Johnston didn't realize that, in a battle area, G.I.s are apt to brush off or fliply answer a question they consider too personal or too demanding. But he got a sounder answer from a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. "I'll tell you what I'm fighting for," he said. "I'm fighting for my life...