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...Just as we have experienced many defeats in armed warfare, so have we suffered many losses in the sector of news and information. From Pearl Harbor to the Java Sea, from the Java Sea to Murmansk and the Aleutians we have failed to utilize the great tonic that the stark realism of bad news can give a determined and united people...
...Berkeley Square flat, nicked her left ear and shattered the sugar bowl on the table. She got down on her hands and knees to salvage the sugar before she patched up her ear. In those days her friendships in the R.A.F. brought TIME'S readers many stark, poignant stories of the men who turned back the Luftwaffe. She had learned to know a very great many of them by their first names at the front, had carried Paris lingerie home to their girls in England, given their Cobber Kain (the Paddy Finucane of 1940) a party at Maxim...
...Raphael. In art they left nothing rugged, but they did succeed in rolling up a mighty snowball of Raphael-belittlement. Even Academicians like John Ruskin agreed that Raphael's Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel in the Dresden Museum before Raphael's Sistine Madonna, could say only: ". . . Fundamentally dull. ... In color it is stupid. . . . The cherubim faces are downright ugly, the infant Jesus equally...
Ship replacements are still behind sinkings. So declared cold, careful Admiral Harold H. ("Betty") Stark, who commands U.S. naval operations in European waters, in London last week. Said Admiral Stark: "When the curve of new construction of ships crossed the curve of sinkings [in World War I], we felt the war had been won-and the same must be done again...
...schedule of ship production promises some 750 new ships in 1942. But sinkings this year, unless sharply whittled down by increased protection, may outdistance last year's rate of 2,500,000 tons in the first six months. If so, Admiral Stark's war-winning curve of new construction will not, cannot cross his curve of sinkings...