Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following passage seems to me worth printing far & wide as one of the finest tributes to the U.S. Army's World War II training system. It comes from a private letter written to me by a brilliant young Czech, who left Prague just before the fatal 1939 invasion, after graduating from the Prague University Law School with a year's military service, then coming to a U.S. university law school, and now a corporal in one of our camps, after four months of indoctrination as a private...
...Bombs away!" All he could get out was "Bombs-." He did not live to see the bombs split the target. He did not live to hear, as the others in the outfit did, of Winston Churchill's message to Major General Ira C. Eaker, calling the raid "a brilliant exploit, the effectiveness of which the photographs have revealed"-nor to hear General Eaker's answering promise: "We will repeat these efforts many times, and on an ever-increasing scale...
...title "Sloppy Citizenship," TIME, Nov. 16, referred to Hamilton Fish, C. Wayland Brooks, Clare E. Hoffman and some others as "Fuzzy specimens of Homo politicanus." I loved that phrasing. In a story on Dillard Stokes (Jan. 11), TIME referred to Burton K. Wheeler's attack on this brilliant reporter as a "tribute." Subtly done, I thought...
...following year the Pierian anticipated playing Handel's "Waterpiece" at Commencement, but "the member who plays the 2nd Clarionett having a sore jaw, occasioned by the Extraction of a tooth, it was judged necessary to apologize to the Seniors and decline playing." The following year, however, a brilliant comeback was staged when its first concert was performed...
...attacking planes yet seen on the screen. It shows low-level enemy attacks so close that bombs can be seen falling from the bomb bays. Again & again enemy planes, machine guns spitting, dive head on at the camera. The camera shows the results: Allied trucks flaring up in brilliant orange and red flame, wounded soldiers being picked up, men milling in shock...