A GRIPPING REPORT
McMillin, Miles
A Gripping Report LETTER FROM NEW GUINEA, by Vern Haug-land. Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. $1.50. Reviewed by Miles McMillin VERN HAUGLAND will undoubtedly disagree, but I think that it's a good...
...Eddie Ricken-backer's Seven Came Through...
...Like a good reporter he took notes of what happened to him...
...Haugland, as far as I know, is the only reporter who has experienced such an ordeal in this war, on either land or water, and lived to tell the story...
...It is a good thing because Haugland is a newspaper man through whose trained reporting, eye all those who care to read can have a detailed and unforgettable picture of the suffering undergone by the hundreds who are not fortunate enough to come back...
...From these and from memory he has reconstructed a gripping personal narrative with a far more human ring to it than, say, Capt...
...Reviewed by Miles McMillin VERN HAUGLAND will undoubtedly disagree, but I think that it's a good thing for the world that he had to bail out of a plane and wander for 42 days through the terrifying jungles of New Guinea...
...It might stiffen their resolve against and deepen their hatred for the whole fantastic institution of war...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 44
