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...insistently mingled in the Iliad. It is more than a war story of the Greeks, fighting on their beaches before Troy. Artful in detail, it is also awesome in implication. As the French scholar Rachel Bespaloff recently observed, the Iliad presents a civilized soldier, Hector, who has everything precious to defend, in contrast and finally in combat with the childlike yet superhuman fury which was Achilles...
Their third, northernmost force, which included four of their precious, dwindling stock of flattops, would send off planes to smear Admiral Mitscher's bare-decked carriers when the latters planes were far away, giving Kinkaid support which the Japs' were confident he would need and demand...
Died. Princess Beatrice, 87, youngest, last-surviving of Queen Victoria's nine children, great-aunt of King George VI, mother of former Queen Victoria of Spain; in Balcombe, Sussex. Victoria's "precious little baby" married Prince Henry of Battenberg (later Englished to Mountbatten) at 28, after the. Prince agreed to become a British subject, and she to live close by the widowed Queen. At her husband's death, Beatrice succeeded him as Governor and Coroner of the Isle of Wight, permitted a deputy to conduct the inquests. In the tradition of royal British hobbyists, she played...
...wife, Irene Curie, had his Nazi troubles. His laboratories at Paris and Ivry were seized and in June, 1941 he had a twelve-hour ordeal with the Gestapo. He came through well enough to get back not only his laboratories but also the only French-owned cyclotron and a precious stock of radium.* Says he: "It wasn't funny. But after I had convinced them that I was all right, I was able to get back to work seriously...
Though not in a combat area, we have served overseas well over the 18 months minimum required. Therefore we think we know the longing with which Joe looks forward to his 21 days at home. Your article did not help to make those precious three weeks any more enjoyable. We are not afraid to face the facts, but we do resent being slapped in the face with them; we learn the unpleasant things fast enough...