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...great flank assaults, diverting the Germans from the drives in the middle Don. At Rzhev and other points on the Moscow front the Red Army still battered at the Germans' interlaced strong points in a prolonged battle of attrition. Near Stalingrad U.P.'s Correspondent Henry Shapiro (see p. 40) discovered a mounting wave of confidence, along with evidence that the Russian armies were nearer defeat last September than the world then knew. Last week they held their lines on the Don's east bank. They slowly drove southward in an advance (toward Kotel-nikov) which tightened...
Scoop No. 3 went to stocky, balding United Pressman Henry Shapiro, who has covered Russia longer than any other U.S. correspondent (six years) and has an advantage over others because, Russian-born he speaks and reads Russian fluently, so that he does not have to rely on interpreters...
During the year: > Many writers, some despairing of interpreting war during a war, found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...
Stephen Spender's Ruins arid Visions ($2) gave proof that war and writing are by no means necessarily incompatible in a civil ized nation. Other notable volumes were The Witness Tree ($2) by Robert Frost, dean of U.S. poets, and Person, Place, and Thing ($2) by Karl Jay Shapiro...
...Sergeant Shapiro, who before the war was a chemist for a New Jersey flavoring-extract firm, has already brewed 50,000 cc. of the poison-ivy inoculant-enough for half a million injections. But the extract is not his invention. It was developed by Colonel Sanford Williams French, a longtime Army doctor who commands the medical branch of the Fourth Service Command. French, one of the 40% of mankind who are relatively immune to poison ivy, can safely gather the plant barehanded. Sergeant Shapiro cannot. Paradoxically, he is one of the few individuals on whom the poison-ivy extract will...