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About the biggest morale booster to us forgotten men of the Assam Valley was the news broadcast concerning the momentous speech of Sergeant Marion Hargrove [TIME, Dec. 17], ex of the U.S. Army. The chairman was right in calling him a nice young fellow. We feel that he speaks for us out here and for 10,000,000 other nice young fellows throughout the world...
...part of Bellamy's job, or of the booster tradition, to ask what the gentlemen would be doing at that point...
...learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming light-plane in dustry is trying to sell planes, through department stores, to those who were never interested in them before. Were the planemakers and stores playing on the ignorance of their customers, overselling their wares? Many a sober booster of private flying was sure that was the case. Last week, at the third annual National Aviation Clinic in Oklahoma City, they said...
Stockings & Coal. Booster Zhukov had something to boast about. The Rus sian occupation was heavy-handed but effective. Results, to date...
...Wilderness. But while it lasted and whil the Age of Opulence covered the land with its fertilizing flood, Americans floated and liked it. The Booster and the Hustler appeared, to do battle with the Knocker. For there were knockers. Many of the long-haired critics had fled prosperity in favor of poverty in Paris. In London, the most important of them, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, found a name for the period's typical man: "Apeneck Sweeney." He called the age's greatest poem simply: The Waste Land...