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Outside the little town of Merino, Colo., Albert Stark rattled along with a truckload of fertilizer. Some 1,400 miles away, in San Francisco, the World Security conference was scarcely two hours old; Mutual's commentators were up to their ears in commentating, and the Blue was airing an ambitious Ben Hecht dramatization of "the little people's" hopes for the world's future...
What is the Shellenbarger-Mitchel combination coming to--a warm friend ship? F. Rudy Trummer, Pine Island's only college man, has become a great buddy of the brother of the ex-president of the Indiana Kappa House. (Very involved). We wish Davie Staff and Bill Stark would get together on who broke Bill's now watch...
...Germany. The stories came from the now liberated prison camps at Bad Orb and Limburg, where U.S. soldiers, captured in the Battle of the Bulge but four months ago, were left to starve into illness and death. The pictures from Limburg (see cuts) spoke for themselves. They were stark testimony of the barbarous state into which the once correct, highly professional Wehrmacht had fallen. More than that, they were the final proof, if any was still needed, that Germany would have to be flattened into complete submission...
Across the shrinking Nazi realm writhed columns of civilian refugees, hungry, pan icky, desperate. Remnants of the Wehrmacht, cut off, cut up, were dissolving into a hopeless, fugitive mob. Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...
There is one annoying feature about "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn": its plug for realism in writing and its pointed advice to would-be writers that only the familiar makes good subject matter. This is something of an apology for the story's stark style, and it's certainly not a new idea. Aside from such personal irritations, however, there is an extremely compelling theme of little people trying to rise from their distress that the most unsociological person will not fail to see clearly, and admire...