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Captain Don MacKinnon should be able to squeeze by with a first or two in the hurdles, but even he will be hard pressed by some top-notch Exeter timber-toppers. Wille Fisher, the other half of Mikkola's point-winning due, is a cinch to triumph in the hammer-throw, although he will be tossing a 16 pound weight while the prep school slingers will use a 12 pounder. If he gets into trouble, however, Wille plans to make his final throw with the lighter pellet...
...raising is no cinch. But hosts of U.S. citizens now want to raise pigs, and crowds of amateurs are trying it. Thirty to 40% of U.S. pigs die before they are old enough to kill. To save more U.S. pigs for the knife, the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association gave pointers...
...then the dessert, (boy, what a meal.) Everyone likes a large, sweet, mouth-watering dessert. The Obstacle Course provides exactly that. A ladder extends in the air for thirty feet. You go up one side and down the other. If you can survive this course, you are a cinch to be good for that last mile you have to run to catch a fleeing German or Jap. In that case the Obstacle Course has proved its worth...
...Cinch, Private Finch!" is unique in several aspects. Technically, its cartoons and brisk, colloquial style of description on the facing pages are refreshingly novel. Also, unlike Hargrove, it takes a typical draftee on the highlights of his basic career rather than the exceptional private during everyday...
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...