Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel that on account of ... countless war widows and orphans ... I should waive collection of a pension . . ." the letter stated. "I cannot, in good conscience, receive ... Government assistance when so many of my less fortunate sisters and their children are not yet taken care...
Selective Service had failed to fill its quota, although the quota was reduced from 80,000 a month to 50,000 after V-J day. Of 100,000 youths reaching 18 each month, many were volunteering in the Navy or Marine Corps. Almost 35,000 were being deferred on account of physical disability, educational plans, proved hardships. Instead of 200,000, a more lenient Selective Service in four months had produced only 140,000 new soldiers...
...Douglas MacArthur's first detailed account of his stewardship in Japan and Korea ran to some 100,000 words and had the usual MacArthur attributes. It read well; detailed facts punctuated its sweeping perspective. And it boiled down to one basic fact: General MacArthur had done a bang-up job of occupying Japan...
...underlying question with every ex-chaplain was how to put his war-widened experience to account. Last fall, Baptist Dr. Alfred Carpenter made a two-month, 33,000-mile tour of U.S. chaplaincies from Casablanca to Japan, Korea and the Pacific for the Navy. On his return, he said...
Pygmalion (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Theatre Inc.) still holds up, after 33 years, as one of Shaw's most actable and entertaining plays. One reason may be that it contains almost nothing to weigh it down. It is Shaw on a holiday. His account of how a phonetics expert transforms a Cockney flower girl into the likes of a duchess is first & foremost good fun. It is a highly satirical, wryly Shavian fairy tale-but a fairy tale for all that...