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...Hanoi, Gottfried teamed up with Eric Gibbs, London Bureau chief then on temporary assignment in Indo-China, to tour the front north of Hanoi in a battered old command car. They wanted to see the thin French defenses that hold back the Reds from all of Indo-China and Siam. Every couple of miles they passed small forts which, except for being brick, looked like something out of American frontier days. Troops had made up for the shortage of barbed wire by slanting up rows of sharpened bamboo sticks-which are quite effective until someone puts a match to them...
...Lattre's men drove into the hills north of Haiphong. A TIME correspondent accompanying the French reported: "The task force followed a narrow Viet Minh track where the jungle crowds in from all sides. The men crossed numberless ravines on thin bamboo strands. On a better road a mile to the south, a column with mules transporting French 755 provided artillery support, while the French light cruiser Duguay-Tronin also zeroed in on Viet Minh positions. On the second day, Viet Minh opened machine-gun fire, but when Moroccan troops began closing in, they fled leaving behind no dead...
Just after Christmas, thin, black-haired Mrs. Montell Purcell saw something which made her turn cold: her pigtailed, four-year-old daughter Carolyn Joan was holding toys close to her face as she played in the Purcells' dingy little house at Alpharetta (pop. 647), Ga. Smiling, the child explained why: it was the only way she could see them...
...time when U.S. literary pickings are pretty thin, a steady trickle of good fiction keeps coming from Britain. With some notable exceptions, e.g., Graham Greene's theological thrillers and Joyce Gary's lusty picaresques, much of the British work seems remarkably alike in its strengths and weaknesses. Typically, it deals with delicate crises in the lives of ordinary folk, it rocks along with a suggestion of kindly irony, and it is written with a high polish that U.S. writers never achieve. But it also seems determinedly unambitious, self-consciously shy of mystery or passion...
...know, the present trays were made when the metal shortage got rough during the war, by grinding up salvage GI socks and underwear turned in by the heroes of the late conflict, embedding these in a plastic matrix and coating the whole with a thin coating of superior smooth plastic in much the same fashion as in the old Columbia victrola records. Now I'm not squeamish, and I have great faith in the miracles of modern science, so I'm not disturbed by the fundamental arrangement. (I am told by a friend from Adams House that Irene was utterly...