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...exits of most hired newsrooms hands are quiet and quick. The exit of John Temple Graves II from the staff of the Birmingham Age-Herald last week was a five-day rowdydow...
...Lost Weekend (Paramount) follows its dipsomaniac hero to the hangover end of a five-day drunk. A naturalistic horror picture, it is a nightmarish look at the life of a specialized urban type: the fear-paralyzed writer turned alcoholic. In some respects, the picture is a better temperance tract than Charles Jackson's best-selling novel from which it was adapted...
After a reception and a 90-minute drive back to Washington, the President was off on a five-day holiday. It looked for a time as if rainy, foggy weather would hold him back, but at 7 p.m. his "Sacred Cow" transport plane put him down 795 miles away, in front of a cheering crowd at Blytheville...
Died. Denyse Clairouin, raven-haired French literary agent, translator of D. H. Lawrence and Tagore, and an ardent organizer of anti-Nazi resistance; of pneumonia (on March 12 but just reported), contracted when the Nazis gave her a brutal five-day ride in an open freight car from the Ravensbruck to the Mulhausen concentration camps...
...meet those threats. Then, in daring and unorthodox thrusts, Lieut. General Sir William J. Slim got forces across the Irrawaddy river 80 miles south of Mandalay. With Jap strength stalled in the north, General Slim's tanks dashed 85 miles to Meiktila. In that area, in a five-day battle, his Britons and Gurkhas captured eight airfields and severed rail and road lines from Rangoon (TIME, March...