Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That brief sequence is probably the easiest way to sum up the new book by Sergeants Harry Brown and Ralph Stein, "it's a Cinch, Private Finch!" A "Yank" writer and artist combined on this easy- to-read easy-to-laugh-at review of Army indoctrination both as a refresher for those who have run the gauntlet of basic training and as a forecast for those about to dive...
...Bible story of Joseph was prehistoric, an all-too-brief, telescoped account of ages of prehistory. Soon Mann discovered that "the personal story of Joseph alone would not do, but that the primeval and original story, the history of the world, demanded to be included at least in perspective." For the prehistoric men & women of Genesis did not seem to share the modern idea that individuality is unique and self-centered. They were "human beings who did not quite know who they were, or who knew it in a more pious, deeply exact way than the modern individual-beings whose...
...energies of our people for a century. . . ." It is as clear and tangible as the potential power of the Yangtze, the Great River, that roars through the gorges below the city, falling 16,000 feet from the Kunlun Ranges, while the millions who live beside it work through their brief years in ignorance of the power and light it might bring them...
...brief service over. Vice President Henry Wallace gravely shook the President's hand. When the President returned to the executive offices, photographers were waiting. He grouped his faithful secretaries and military aide about his desk and posed for anniversary pictures. Then, putting his cigaret holder in his mouth at a rakish angle, jutting his chin forward, in the pose cartoonists use, he said: "Let's make one this way, boys." Franklin Roosevelt was putting on his "stern face." The result (see cut) showed what a remarkable resemblance the President, now 61, bears to his late mother...
...alumna went back last weekend. Mei-ling Soong. honor student, class of '17, went to see how the campus had changed since her last May Day hoop rolling and June step singing. For Madame Chiang Kaishek, the woman Mei-ling Soong had become, the Wellesley visit was a brief recess in her U.S. tour...