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...glad to be back in the thick of it again? The answer was an epic shrug and a Slavic expostulation as follows...
Last Close-Ups? The Thomas epic, Out of This World, was written by 27-year-old Lowell Jr. in the man-on-a-magic-carpet tone his father favors. The tone still works; the book has already sold 100,000 copies and climbed high on the bestseller lists...
...cheng, parts of it recently marched into Tibet and are lending aid to the Indo-Chinese Reds against the French. Liu trained for his profession at the Red Army Academy in Moscow, once fought with the Red Russians against Manchurian Warlord Chang Tso-lin, led the vanguard of the epic Long March from central China to Yenan in 1934-35, rates as one of the army's boldest tacticians...
...America's top portrait sculptors. He first gained fame in Washington with a posthumous portrait of James Forrestal, which now stands in the Mall entrance to the Pentagon. Kallio read everything he could find about Forrestal, decided he resembled "a character in the Kalevala [Finland's national epic] who worked hard all his life, was good, and finally stabbed himself...
...your Dec. 18 cover story on Major General Tunner, you say he was sent to India to take charge of the A.T.C. airlift which flew "the Hump," and quote General Wedemeyer: "Tunner created an epic in air operation...