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...hardly two weeks ago that I were playing a starring role in "Aida"; I was the fourth spearman in the second rank in the Red Battalion in the second scene in the second act. The notorious defection of the Boston papers in falling to mention my outstanding performance was due, I am convinced, to the lack of space caused by the sinking of three Malden men and a couple of tankers the day before by a Nazi submarine...
...approached Melbourne. Australians had just got the news from their late morning papers, and 4,000 had gathered to greet him outside the station's high, iron fence. They saw assorted generals in standard khaki and medals, an admiral or two in white and gold, a U.S. Army battalion drawn up as guard of honor. They saw seven white-legginged, strangely brown soldiers in a special detail: Filipinos from Field Marshal MacArthur's Commonwealth Army, wounded in the early days of the fighting and evacuated to Australia by hospital ship. Then the people saw MacArthur...
Genius in Shirt Sleeves. Detroit has more than machinery, more than the manufacturing brains of Henry Ford's generation. The industry's front line is manned by a little battalion of unknown men in battered felt hats, sitting shirt-sleeved in cubbyhole factory offices, darting out among the machines, spitting tobacco juice, profanity and ideas. These are Detroit's production men, fresh up from the ranks, a trace of grease still under their stubby fingernails. They know machines as only men can who have handled them. They are the men who play by ear, with near-perfect...
...battalion paraded into the hall in four companies, each headed by the company commander. The colors were marched on by the color guard and presented to the color company. The Unit presented arms with military precision, and the National Anthem was played...
Under the staccato commands of the Battalion Commander, the Unit was put through the Manual of Arms--right shoulder, left shoulder and present arms. The list of special prizes was read off, and the student winners stepped out of the ranks and formed a line before the reviewing stand for the presentation. Lieutenant D. G. Maraspin, USNR, Secretary of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, made the awards which the society gives for general excellence They were presented to William Wesselhoeft '42 and Maynard M. Miller...