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...been. But the Mediterranean campaign, viewed as a whole, had the look of an enterprise which had been started with a bang in North Africa, carried on through Sicily to the very shores of Italy, then abruptly reduced in scale and objectives. If so, the original plans had gone askew at some point; decisions in mid-campaign to concentrate elsewhere may account, partly, for the slow pace in Italy...
Saturday night it looked like all E men had the night air in their blood . . . The week-end found them at the Statler, the Commodore, the models' dance, the Copley Plaza, the movies, and even the Officers Club . . . Bill Askew stayed home with his code set . . . for a while . . .By nightfall the boys on watch were talking to themselves...
...washed dock that day a knot of tanned, relaxed sailors waited, the bandsmen with their instruments all askew. As the black hull of a submarine appeared across the way they came to attention. The 20-piece band thumped into the Beer Barrel Polka...
Home to the war went oak-hearted Winston Churchill, his dark blue Trinity House uniform damp with the spindrift of the high sea, his yachtsman's cap askew. Home to a nation which still believed it could avoid the war went broad-shouldered Franklin Roosevelt, faultlessly pressed, confident, characteristically hopeful of the world's destiny. They had kindled-so they hoped and perhaps believed-a fire that would be a light...
...your article under Science (TIME, May 11) I meekly suggest that Director Henry Askew Barton of the American Institute of Physics and that the National Academy of Sciences canvass the rolls of the U.S. Army's enlisted men. There they will find the many graduate chemists and physicists who are so badly needed for research in all war work...