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Apologizing for his English, Poland's Group Captain Stefan Sznuk explained: "Only in one instance does a Polish airman speak this language distinctly and with the proper accent-it is when he speaks to the enemy using the eloquent language of the twelve English-made machine guns of his fighter plane...
...Died. Stefan Zweig, 60, Austrian-born novelist, biographer, essayist (Amok, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Marie Antoinette), and his wife, Elizabeth; by poison; in Petropolis, Brazil. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, Zweig turned from casual globe-trotting to literature after World War I, wrote prolifically, smoothly, successfully in many forms. His books banned by the Nazis, he fled to Britain in 1938 with the arrival of German troops, became a British subject in 1940, moved to the U.S. the same year, to Brazil the next. He was never outspoken against Naziism, believed artists and writers should be independent...
LINCOLN: His LIFE IN PICTURES-Stefan Lorant-Due//, Sloan & Pearce...
...best sequence of Lincoln photographs ever issued in book form has been edited by a Hungarian-born emigre journalist, Stefan Lorant. The book includes more than 100 photographs of Lincoln, many of them never before published; some 300 photographs of Lincoln's associates, advisers, generals, friends and enemies. One remarkable sequence is a photographic record of Lincoln's transformation from a rather smug frontier lawyer (Picture No. 1) to the brooding savior of the Union (Picture No. 2 taken on a broken plate five days before he was shot). Before Editor Lorant nobody had ever thought...
...Stefan Lorant is also author of the best-selling I Was Hitler's Prisoner, which British Editor Wickham Steed said would outlast the Third Reich. After the Hungarian Government got him out of a Nazi concentration camp, Lorant started Picture Post in London, ran up its circulation to 1,500,000 in a few weeks. With his first U.S. citizenship papers in his pocket, Lorant is working on a pictorial history of the U.S., of which Lincoln will be a part...