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...battle came far toward dawn of the fifth day. The anti-administration group produced a bombshell in the form of an affidavit, signed by Ferdinand Lundberg (America's 60 Families), declaring that Milton Kaufman had been a Communist Party member for eight years, had written for the Daily Worker under the name "Milton Kay." Kaufman flatly denied the charge. The big New York Guild, which contains 4,000 of the Guild's claimed 17,000 present members, voted solidly, giving him an official vote of confidence and a noisy demonstration...
...zero hour approached one dawn last week, all General Rommel had to know was whether he was coming or going...
...clock in the morning, a grey dawn on a grey sea, when the Robin Moor first saw the signal lights blinking. They signaled: "Send over a boat." The captain came up on the bridge in his pajamas. A boat was lowered and four seamen at the oars rowed the chief officer through the lifting dawn toward the long, low shape awash in the water, a mile and a half away...
...well he might have. For tucked away inside his little drugstore were four smuggled rolls of film. They were pictures taken aboard the Zamzam in the dawn of April 17 after the Nazi raider fired ten shells into her, pictures of the passengers abandoning ship, a picture of the raider (a commonplace looking merchantman refitted as an armed cruiser), pictures of the sinking Zamzam, pictures aboard the prison ship, pictures taken 33 days later as the prisoners caught sight of the Spanish and French coasts...
...visiting fireman in Paris who missed him. Night in & out the indestructible little columnist organized his "death watch" for visiting Americans due to catch the boat train from the Gare St. Lazare for Cherbourg. The Sparrow saw his pal to the station, bounced off in the full dawn to do his chipper column on the night's adventures. It was a unique column -a syntax-slaughtering chronicle which editors were carefully warned not to unscramble. Said Playwright Eugene O'Neill of its author: "Why, he's the greatest writer in the world...