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Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week relaxed the airtight censorship on political news which had prevailed in North Africa since the Allied landings last November. The smell of intrigue was worse than even the profoundest pessimists had imagined. Wrote unemotional Drew Middleton, correspondent of the even more unemotional New York Times, just back in Algiers from a trip to the Morocco bailiwick of General Auguste Nogues...
...girl from France spoke softly, but her eyes glowed. "You should have known Marseille as it was. One of the things you remember about it is its smell. Not just a smell of fish and the sea, like every harbor city, but a strong, spicy smell which makes you think of Oriental cities. It was a city of humming, busy life where all the races of the world jostled each other-and frequently fought-in dark and narrow streets. Its houses were ugly and dirty, narrow and low. Wash lines were strung from window to window across the streets...
...exceptions. But the electron tube can. What is more, the electron tube can hear, feel, taste, remember, measure, count and talk. Unable to think and without a conscience, the tube is still less than human. But with proper accessories it far exceeds the human senses (except taste and smell) in keenness...
...tried to see ahead. Editors on the Eastern Front, Editors on the Western Front, Editors--. Now who will fill the flowing bowl and, more important, mother the Freshmen, he wondered. Who would discover the WAVES while they were still but ripples in the caves of Comstock? Who could smell out the wiles of the Satevepost soon enough to scoop PM? Who could squeeze out tears so well as Dan, describing the PBH mites waiting wetly for their mothers to finish defense work? Who would replace Hal and Roy in shoveling the track from Plympton Street...
Ezio was playing Boris for the 50th time. For him, every groan and stagger of Modest Moussorgsky's doom-shadowed hero was an old story. But Pinza as usual sang and acted every line with half-crazed intensity, made the part so live that his audience could almost smell the sweat of medieval Moscow. Next day critics tried hard to find a new way of saying that Ezio Pinza is the world's greatest operatic basso, the greatest singing actor of his generation...