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...reclassification from 1-A to 2-A (deferred for six months as a necessary civilian) on an appeal to the Presidential board in Washington. That put him back where he had been before his New York City appeal board had reclassified him-and it carried him well beyond his 38th birthday next March...
Last week the 38th ("Cyclone") Division moved out of the Louisiana maneuver area and headed back to its permanent quarters in Florida, and the most irreverent venture in military journalism swerved back into something approaching orthodox reporting. But the editors of the Cydoner could look fondly back on three months of unbridled gaggery...
Thus jauntily 59-year-old F. P. A. concluded his 38th year of daily columning. He still had something better than a tidy poker allowance from Information Please ($900 a week), but chances appeared slim that he would ever again match his Conning Tower heyday on the old New York World or his $21,852-a-year syndicate column on the Herald Tribune. Less appreciated now are his own Pepys' diary of poker-playing, reading, tennis, his punning and light verse. Real meat of his column was always contributions. In it appeared the early efforts of Dorothy Parker, George...
Last week there was a small but hopeful sign that the U.S. Army might be on the way to getting tough-tough enough to face modern military competition. Major General Daniel Isom Sultan was ordered to command of the 38th (National Guard) Division at Camp Shelby, Miss. He was the first Regular Army officer in this emergency to replace the National Guard commander of a Guard division. He will not be the last. Of the 17 National Guard divisions which went to France with the A.E.F., only one (the 27th) had its original commander (Major General John...
Last week Carnegie passed up what was to have been its 38th International, put on instead a bang-up $3,000,000 survey of U. S. painting-367 pictures, dating from 1680 to 1940. The show opened, according to tradition, with Founder's Day ceremonies at the Institute...