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...blasted Go-Getter Pochapin (pronounced Po-chaypin) out of the radio-recorder business. Says Max: "I made up my mind if I had to go into another business I'd tackle oil painting. It is the only industry I know that doesn't use modern merchandising technique. They are selling today as they sold 50 years ago." He adds: "I always loved pictures...but I was scared off by prices ranging from...
...Poème à l'Etrangere (Poem to a Foreign Lady), Leger's Hemispheres contribution, is written in blank verse. Through its architectonic symbolism the poet sadly glimpses an alien America, nostalgically compares what he thinks he sees with his memories of a dying France...
Pressure of Victories. Roosevelt and Churchill worked under great pressure. The rapid pace of military events called for urgent decisions: even as they met, the Germans backed up toward Italy's Po River, bombers continued their spectacular successes in softening up -Western Europe, the Russians recaptured Kharkov, U.S. air power forced the last Japanese out of the Aleutians. Victory was now certain-and, in Europe, perhaps near. The political pressure was equally tense. The worries of Europe's little people, now that victory could be foreseen, demanded a firm policy toward the postwar government of Germany, Italy, Poland...
...only two objects: maximum, to hold the Badoglio Government to its Axis alliance for war and/or peace; minimum, to keep Italy in the war long enough for Germany to get forces and matériel down through the Brenner to hold a de fensive line south of the Po. But German broadcasts stopped using the word "Axis...
...Chain. Germany had the troops to send to chosen points. Reinforcements still arrived in Sicily. Into northern Italy, above the River Po, other Germans moved from Austria, from Yugoslavia, and possibly from southern Italy, which the Germans patently did not expect to hold. From the area of Udine and Venice they spread west almost to Milan. Nazi troops also concentrated in the upper Adriatic's Istrian peninsula, where the late Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio seized Fiume after World...