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...member of a peculiar British institution, half open-air reformatory and half military kindergarten, known as Army Boys' Technical Training Battalion. "Belsen" is his name for Hurlingford, the battalion's base, and his judgment on civilian life is "oujamaflick"-his word for "iniquity," which the outside world is a sink of. Dinger Bell is the narrator-hero of an autobiographical novel by an Englishman who himself became an "apprentice" soldier at 14. As he remembers it, "the junior intake" at Hurlingford is possibly the most pathetic body of British men-at-arms since Justice Shallow filled his draft...
Safe, Cubular Things. Manhattan-born Lundy won his rebel's spurs honorably. An automatic-rifleman with Patton's Third Army, he was one of 16 out of a battalion of 360 to survive, ended up for eight months in an Army hospital with his left arm nearly shot off by a German tank. At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, after the war, studying with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Lundy began as the wildman of the class: "Everything came out that had been bottled up during the war," he explains. "I gave it the works...
...hobbledehoys, but dedicated to their business-jobs and titles, endless meals and dressing up, places to live and places to die. Papa ("Der schöne Uhlan," the Mob called him) got himself appointed Honorary Colonel of the Post Office Volunteers. He dutifully went under canvas with his pugnacious battalion, but he was pretty much of a failure, declined into rose pruning, and died after a sad "softening of the brain...
...Refugee Minister Theodor Oberlaender, 54, who was a political officer with the Wehrmacht's Nightingale Battalion of pro-German Ukrainian nationalists when they entered Lvov in 1941. Before an international commission in The Hague this month, Oberlaender denied a charge that he ordered the massacre of 2,400 Ukrainians, Poles and Jews at Lvov, declared that the Russians did it before he got there...
...appropriate words of praise for the new 150-man Ghanaian navy, which last week got its first craft-two British minesweepers. Resplendent in his white field marshal's uniform, Philip stopped off to present new Queen's colors to the trim Ghana regiment's 3rd Battalion; he also visited the headquarters of the air force, which now numbers 17 cadets. Politely, the duke inspected the ambitious new harbor project at Tema, 18 miles east of Accra, and the site of Nkrumah's projected $600 million Volta River project...