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Screams in the Subway. "Then a heavy bomb crashed through the tunnel roof . . . and a wave of cold air, followed by dust, swept over us. In the distance someone yelled for a doctor. The clamor for help was taken up by many voices, which were drowned in the next wave...
Died. Alexey Nicholayevich Tolstoy, 62, long-haired, beret-wearing, best-selling Russian writer (Peter the Great, Darkness and Dawn), remote kinsman of the late great Leo Tolstoy; from a lung ailment; in Moscow. A Tsarist count, he renounced his title to become the Soviet's most enthusiastic propagandist and...
Light in the Darkness. There Nimitz found, in his own concise summation, "too many people and too much pessimism." His attitude toward his luckless predecessor, Kimmel, was that of a professional who sees a brother officer under the lash of defeat: "There, but for the grace of God, go I...
Out of the darkness of censorship and isolation, radio waves brought a troubled voice from Russian-occupied Rumania. It was the voice of Premier Nicolai Radescu, a greying professional soldier with scant political experience but a strong executive hand. General Radescu had taken office last December with approval of the...
This story is used not as an excuse for histrionic heroics but as a basis for a good deal of dogged, specific detail about men at war. While the paratroops struggle through the jungle, the camera peers ahead of them and on all sides, at silent spaces of water, at...