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...first beauty contest, in which Paris, after some difficulty, decided in favor of Venus, bristled with Gothic touches. Cranach had presented fast-stepping Mercury with an iron-grey beard, a studious look and a crystal ball instead of a golden apple. He had dressed Paris in the ponderous armor and plumed hat of a German prince, gave him an insufferably arrogant and calculating...
Wooden Guns. Exact figures on Europe's military establishment were technically secret. But it was no secret to anyone that the Western European powers between them could put no more than a dozen poorly equipped, poorly organized combat divisions into the field, virtually bare of armor and effective air support...
Some of these chinks in the Western armor were exaggerated. Others were real. The Atlantic pact was a crashing diplomatic defeat for world Communism, but of itself it would not strike at the roots of Communist power nor guarantee the anti-Communist world against attacks. Rather, the pact was a recognition of danger and a resolution to build common defenses. The very achievement of an Atlantic pact underlined the failure to build an Asiatic defense against Communism...
...Winkled Guns. When the hill is finally taken, and the battalion is reduced to less than a company, the brigadier in command says cheerily: "I've got a job for you . . . We want to get our armor on the move . . . but they're held up until we can get infantry to winkle the guns out." When the winkling is done, all that is left is "a pair of boots protruding from a roadside ditch; a body blackened and bent like a chicken burnt in a stove; a face pressed into the dirt; a hand reaching...
...play concerns a young man who escapes from his humdrum life by inventing wonderful tales about himself. This gains for him the prestige he craves, ("I should have been a knight in shining armor"), but he soon finds it difficult to remember when he is lying and when he is not. He is a Walter Mitty of action; a Christy Mahon without honor...