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...they superimpose upon this framework of discipline a gentle mysticism which officers almost nowhere else do. Chen Cheng's Sixth War Area second-in-command sometimes stands on a hill in the moonlight with visitors and recites the liquid verses of the early 8th-Century Poet Li Po. A general commanding one of the crucial fortifications of the Gorges paints delicate drawings of birds and flowers...
EPISODE ON WEST 8TH STREET-Jule Brousseau-Smith & Durrell ($2.50). A murky, painstaking story of a few New Yorkers: a distraught sweatshop Jew who kills his boss, an unemployed architect and his wife, a suicidal Polish girl from the Pennsylvania coal patches. Rather Greenwich-Villagesque, but definitely talented...
Included in the early Irish material are the heavy from swords and axes left behind by the Vikings in their raids of the 8th to 10th centuries A.D. A variety of examples of native bronze or iron axes swords, trumpets and jewelry are shown several of them highly decanted...
Leonard Gerow knew what to do. Before his last detail (second in command of the 8th Division at Columbia, S. C.), he had put in 18 months in W. P. D. as General Strong's executive. And during his 29 years as an officer he had gone through the Army's best finishing schools, from the War College down, had seen plenty of service with troops and acquitted himself with the cold efficiency that George Marshall likes. Like Marshall he is no West Pointer but a V. M. I. graduate. The legend of Cadet Marshall, All-Southern tackle...
Chief reason for the secession was the realization that it was absolutely impossible to keep the Union together. Although this was known at the meeting on October 8th, the vote solidified sentiment...