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When the news came through that the Allies had opened another front in Europe, they were making bets here in the office that TIME'S Foreign News Editor John Osborne, last reported in Florence, would somehow manage to get in on General Wilson's new show. (He did-on D-day Osborne flew from Italy in a 6-25, had a front-row seat for the pre-invasion bombings-was last reported far inland with our advancing armies...
...weeks the Germans had noted allied landing boats piling up in Mediteranean harbors, had nervously trumpeted their findings to the world. Then distinguished visitors began arriving in Italy for front-row seats-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, Supply Chief Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean, announced he had moved his headquarters to Italy from North Africa...
Angry Irish voices filled the lecture theater of Dublin's handsome, wide-flung Leinster House. Honorable red-faced members of the Dail Eireann threw "reckless," "irresponsible," "pique and petulance" at the bowed head of astute, unbowed Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, crouched on his shiny, mahogany front-row seat. De Valera had just tripped an unwary Dail into an unwanted general election, the second within a year...
...something in his ear. President Barclay smiled. He didn't seem to have anything else to say; neither did the Senate. Seconds ticked by. The Vice President leaned back, began to squirm. Then Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York stepped forward, led the Liberian President to a front-row seat...
...this requires a system. . . . Correspondents are kept up to date and informed of the general military situation. . . . Before a big offensive I see that the press is ready and collected and are at the right places at the right time. In other words, we shall see they get front-row seats in the stalls when the curtain goes...