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Suddenly the top of the bag pimpled, popped. An instant later the whole crown split open, and 350,000 cu. ft. of helium roared out. An Army sergeant on the gondola understood the crisis first, frantically yelled, "Run! Run! She's busted!" Before any of the 20 men under the bag could do so, they were flattened by nearly three acres of billowing, stifling cloth...
...perfectly how to give satisfaction. Last week there was a silent chorus of Gallic shrugs among London's best chefs when it appeared that the international Silver Jubilee Soup Recipe Competition (TIME, March 18), of which M. Cedard was a judge, had been won by a British Army cook sergeant, honest George Brown of Aldershot...
...first prize recipe, wherever honest Sergeant Brown got it, was purely French or it would scarcely have won at the hands of Chef Cedard. The distinction: an English soup starts with water into which things are thrown; a French soup starts with ingredients so prepared as to develop and conserve their flavor, water being added to the minimum extent necessary...
...Germany's Arnold Zweig has written of the years of peace with an imagination dominated by visions and fears of war, of the years of war with an imagination dominated by dreams and hopes of peace. Last week readers who recalled his powerful War novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, found Author Zweig's short stories cut in the same essential pattern as his longer and more ambitious work, read of humble people who were destroyed or demoralized by events beyond their control or understanding, who sometimes attempted a brief resistance, but more often submitted hopelessly to fate...
Best story in the book is The Enemy. Sergeant Paschke suddenly realizes that the Russian soldier trapped in the darkness is a human being, decides to give him a chance to surrender, hesitates, is killed for his moment of humanity. His comrade kills the Russian who had considered all German soldiers efficient and unfeeling units of a war machine...