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...quiet, blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Ivan Nikitine, deputy chief of Stalin's own security police, Russian criminologists reconstructed the last days of Hitler in Berlin. Beside a bookcase in Hitler's personal room in the battle-wrecked Chancellery the sleuths found a thin concrete removable panel. Behind was a man-sized hole leading to a super-secret concrete shelter, far underground and 500 meters away. Another tunnel connected the shelter with an underground trolley line. Food scraps in the shelter indicated that from six to twelve people had stayed there as late...
...worshipers this would be a sacrilege such as the desecration of a church would be to the invaders. Most Americans were unaware of the sacrilege.* To them this god looked like a somewhat toothy, somewhat bandy-legged, thin-chested, bespectacled little man. But to 70 million Japanese he was divine. He was the Emperor Hirohito...
Though slight and thin-shouldered, he practiced every sport, even wrestling. He was best at swimming. Years later he confessed: "I am not really good at any sport. In swimming, however, I rather think I can hold...
...will keep it all moving west of the Mississippi, where the arteries thin out, is tough, able William Franklin Kirk of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., on loan to the Office of Defense Transportation. Bill Kirk is no novice at playing the western railroad keyboard for all it is worth. After some two and a half years of watching over a swelling torrent of war freight, Railroader Kirk is reputed to know every siding west of the Mississippi River...
Belmont, a greyish, thin-lipped man in his 60s, calls his painting Color-Music Expressionism. "Inherent synesthetic perceptions" (granted, he explains, to only 5% of humanity) account for his seeing colors when he hears musical sounds. He has supplemented his natural gift with a complex mathematical scheme, based on the comparative vibrations of sounds and light rays.* A ray of red, for example, has about 477,000,000,000 vibrations per second. Its tonal equivalent, to Belmont, is the key of C. Similarly, the key of D is orange; E, yellow; F, yellow-green, etc. Thus, a dirge is painted...