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...like to think the chief difference is that TIME's editors have time to dig back of the news and do the job the papers would like to do if they were freed from the pressure of their daily and hourly deadlines...
...backed Colonel Andreas von Auloch, the "madman of Saint-Malo," finally surrendered. Begrimed (but with boots shining), proud of their stand (but reeling after a farewell bout with the bottle), the Germans gave up after eleven days of pounding. Before they marched out of their tunneled redoubt the Germans freed seven U.S. prisoners. The Americans had been treated well, had scarcely noticed the air bombardments in the four-story-deep granite fortress...
Gert Hans von Gontard, Anheuser-Busch brewery heir, onetime German baron, freed last June of draft-evasion charges, was inducted into the Army six days before his 38th birthday, dropped the "von" from his name, observed cheerfully: "I've been an American citizen for five years-and am proud...
...Mayor's voice as he gave thanks to the Americans. He said: "Up to now we have been slaves. Today we are Frenchmen." The crowd responded with surf-like cheers: Vive la France! Vive l'Amérique! Vive De Gaulle! But some among them had freed Frenchmen's work...
Twenty-five years ago, in the wake of World War I, Hungarian-born Marcel Fodor set out for the Balkans with equal zest. An engineer, fluent in five languages, he had been grumbling along as manager of a steel mill in the English Midlands. Postwar retrenchment shut the mill, freed Fodor. The Manchester Guardian liked his occasional letters from Middle Europe, asked for cables, soon hired the shy, whip-smart, "relentlessly honest" little man as a fulltime correspondent. Thereby, the Guardian conferred a major boon on U.S. foreign correspondence...