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Since there is conclusive proof of only 365 cases of murder by the Reds, Colonel Hanley's larger figure is open to suspicion of being "atrocity propaganda." The Allies carefully avoided such propaganda during World War II for an excellent reason--if backfires. Inaccurate charges of enemy brutality actually spur the enemy to further violations, and prompt our own troops to commit similar acts in revenge. Atrocity charges also stimulate the home-front hotheads (several senators called for "immediate atomic retaliation" Last week), and stiffen the enemy's will to resist. Colonel Hanley's inaccurate statement not only countered...
Marriage Revealed. H. Earl Hoover, 60, Chicago vacuum cleaner magnate; and Miriam Ulbinen, 38, his housekeeper; he for the third time; on Oct. 2, in Denver. Divorced two months ago, Hoover announced that the thought of remarrying occurred to him "on the spur of the moment" while he was on a business trip, and that he called up his housekeeper and asked her to fly to Denver for a wedding...
...train swerved off the main line and sped down a seldom-used spur leading between low hills, straight to the German border. On D-day minus one, Truksa had motorcycled to Asch and thrown a switch...
...year-old Englishman who started out to be a Navy officer, he shows nearly as much contempt as compassion for his cast of travelers. He wastes no time storytelling. Instead, having his characters where he wants them, he expertly lays bare their frustrations and the cheap ambitions that spur them on. When he brings them down with engine trouble, it is only to show how they disintegrate in adversity...
...handed." They have a good right cross or a good left jab, but rarely combine the two. Robinson's repertoire, thrown with equal speed and power by either hand, includes every standard punch from a bolo to a hook-and a few he makes up on the spur of the moment...