Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pablo Picasso's joining of the French Communist Party and the attack on his paintings at the Paris Autumn Salon (TIME, Oct. 16) were discussed last week in a Paris cable from TIME'S Correspondent Sherry Mangan. Excerpt...
...Roosevelt rally in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, Irving Berlin stood up on the stage and croaked his latest song. He had left countless doughboys roaring it on his recent U.S.O. trip to Italy, was still adding stanzas by the dozen. Excerpt...
Sarah Bernhardt's 1918 recording of Prayer for Our Enemies, made when the late great queen of tragediennes was 73, was heard (over Station WMCA) by U.S. radio listeners for the first time. Excerpt: They have revived a brutal way of living-Of murder, and pillaging and fire . . . Their covenants they tear to tiny shreds. To Thee who knows their inmost rage and cunning We pray with anguished hearts and heads laid low. Thou who their inmost souls and thoughts can view, Forgive them not-they know well what they...
...Normandy British intelligence officers translated the captured report of a German Panzer division commander, written for the information of a commander moving in to replace him. Excerpt: "The enemy's incredibly heavy artillery bombardment is something new and terrible. The German Air Force is conspicuous by its absence. Only six German planes flew over our divisional area in four weeks-one and one-half planes per week...
...Department lately conducted an essay contest on "Why I Fight." Last week twelve Army judges, after pondering 300 entries, picked the winners. All three were from New York City-two from Brooklyn alone. First prize went to Corp. Jack J. Zurofsky, 28, of Brooklyn, now recovering from combat wounds. Excerpt...