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After the soldiers came the civilians. They picked their way through ruins and roadblocks, in search of food ,and firewood. In the first days of peace, soup kitchens served 320,000 meals to hungry Athenians. Against the wall of a hotel an old man leaned as though asleep. He had been dead five days...
...late afternoon when the enemy task force was sighted, steaming in from the South China Sea, by a Navy search Liberator piloted by Lieut. P. F. Stevens of Joplin, Mo. Stevens reported his find: a battleship, a cruiser and six destroyers. Then he made a beeline back to Mindoro, gassed up and had his plane armed with four 500-lb. bombs. While other strikes were being set up, he flew back to the Jap task force's course, picked out the battleship as his target. A low-level run with his flying boxcar in the face of concentrated...
...that Choreographer Jerome Robbins and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein did for the Ballet Theater. Here again are three young sailors footloose in Manhattan, only now one of them falls for the photograph of Miss Turnstiles, the subway's girl-of-the-month (Sono Osato), and the search for her becomes a breathless, round-the-town, round-the-clock jamboree. With the other two sailors picking off girls en route, On the Town sings and dances, joshes and handsprings its way from Central Park to the Museum of Natural History, from Carnegie Hall to Times Square, from a flock...
...hedged. So did Austrian Composer Ernst Krenek, who philosophically noted that the great 16th-Century Italian Composer Palestrina "collaborated" with the Pope and the Council of Trent, and that Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is unquestionably "collaborating" with Joseph Stalin. Concluded he: "Anyone called upon for advice will have to search his conscience: does he wish to lend his hand to the political game, or does he prefer to live by the word of the Gospel: 'Judge not, that ye be not judged...
...from a routine patrol, picked up a startling report from a minesweeper: a mysterious object, possibly a submarine, had been detected in the darkness to the west. From the skipper's cabin, Lieut. William W. Outerbridge, nervously proud of his first full command, hurried out to direct a search. Finding nothing, he gave the order to secure from general quarters, went back to sleep...