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Your observation that the damage done to U.S.-British relations during the utterances by Churchill, Attlee, et al. was partly caused by the failure of Americans "to take seriously years of anti-American propaganda by British journalists and intellectuals" is perfectly justified...
...edge of their chairs at color movies of Chicago's little Siamese twins, which included close-ups of their brains as Neurosurgeon Oscar Sugar sorted out the mixed-up blood vessels, and details of the long and complicated series of skin grafts (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). Also for the professional audience only was a sequence of the surviving twin, Rodney Brodie, sitting happily alone in a playchair, though the top of his head bulged under the pressure of the brain against its light covering of skin and fuzzy hair...
...Speeding Truck. The bitter feud between Columnists Lyons and Winchell flared up when Lyons resigned as vice president of Winchell's pet project, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952 et seq.). Recently Lyons lighted a firecracker under Winchell by writing a letter to New York City's Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan. The letter suggested that Monaghan revoke Winchell's pistol-toting permit, unless Winchell could pass a "psychiatric" test...
...Senate Armed Services subcommittee, tracking down ammunition shortages (TIME, March 16 et seg.), rendered a blistering judgment last week against the Truman Administration. A majority report, signed by Republicans Margaret Chase Smith, Robert C. Hendrickson, John Sherman Cooper and Democrat Harry Byrd, agreed that...
...France and went underground. By 1943 he was running the intelligence service of the "French Army Resistance Organization." When the U.S. forces landed in southern France, Navarre joined them, fought in the liberation of France, later led a regiment of mounted Spahis in De Lattre's Rhin et Danube army. He was seven times cited for bravery, wears the Croix de Guerre and Resistance Medal with rosette. Since then he has commanded a French armored division and been deputy commander in chief of the French occupation forces in Germany. His most recent job: chief of staff to Marshal Juin...