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...line were carefully camouflaged batteries of anti-tank and heavy machine guns, spaced fairly widely down the valley and highway pathways of assault. Successive, deeper rows of similar weapons were spaced more & more closely until they were backed finally by batteries of 75-mm. field guns, weapons able to knock out heaviest tanks when fired pointblank. The defense plan was to let heavy tanks push back into this final network, to have the advance units destroy motorcycles, armored cars, troop lorries following the heavy equipment...
...PROMISED LAND-James Street -Dial ($3). The huge. Indian-fighting Georgia cracker Sam Dabney and his sister Honoria, a burlap knock-off of Scarlett O'Hara, start at the bottom and work their way up. Also involved in these 816 pages are Tecumseh, the Natchez Trace, the cotton gin, the Battle of New Orleans, the opening up of Alabama and Mississippi. For readers to whom vivid frontier data is cheesecake, there are enough exposed bosoms,-vengeance motifs and brutalities to go round...
...little of his work be published, let as few people as possible see the scores from which he and his orchestra played in concert. At a rehearsal, he would indicate tempi, toss off a few notes of a cadenza, infuriate everyone by remarking "Et cetera, Messieurs," and knock off. During Paganini's life, the only way a fiddler could learn anything about his style was to listen in a concert hall. This was not much help: not for many years could anyone figure out how to play his best-known, most difficult works, the 24 Caprices...
...Carried away by his precept and example, the farmers reduce their planting to what they can eat, turn their animals loose, crowd their fallow land with narcissi, make friends with a stag and his doe. Having set up his earthly paradise, Giono regretfully proceeds in his closing chapters to knock it to pieces. He does so none too logically. Jean Giono has a genius for observing, and recording, the splendors of the natural world, the beauty of natural tasks and pleasures. The book has been given an excellent translation...
Whatever dreams of world empire Adolf Hitler may have, his Ambassador's declaration to Japan seemed to mean that they can wait. Adolf Hitler is a man who does one thing at a time. Last week he was preoccupied with trying to knock out his archenemies, Britain and France, and in the flush of that triumph to build his new Europe which Germany would dominate for 1,000 years. Although France and Britain were still on their feet, they were so groggy that spectators were busy speculating on what sort of Europe Adolf Hitler's Europe would...