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Since Shelley's coin were gold in Glory's bank...
...trouble with war drama, to put it somewhat vaguely, is this: there is nothing unique about tragedy in 1942 America. The problems of families being torn apart; of bride and groom, fresh from the preacher, being forcibly separated; of living for country or for self; are (to coin a phrase) too much with us. It isn't that the playwrights don't realize what this war means. It is simply that its meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff of tragedy is rapidly becoming as easy to swallow as water. And even though...
Killer. They sent Buzz to Australia to fetch more planes that were not there. By the time some P-40s arrived Java was being invaded. Charles ("Bud") Sprague and Buzz were told to flip a coin to decide who would go to Java, who would remain in Australia to teach some green pilots just arrived from the U.S. Sprague went to Java, where he was killed. "You won the toss?" a newsman asked Buzz. "No, I lost. Bud Sprague was my friend," said Buzz, his blue-green eyes ablaze...
...nervously lighter side to the grim picture came yesterday from tales of escapes from the Grove. Many students, came close to being there, only to to miss at the last moment. Most amazing was the man who flipped a coin for the Grove or another spot. The coin said "Cocoaunt" but his date insisted on two out of three, and they missed fate. A Freshman, told he was too young to be served liquer, left petulantly five minutes before the fiame burst...
...dresses; $18.50 for $4.50 shoes; $100 rent for $30 apartments; $3.95 for $1.25 hose; $2.95 for 50? cosmetics. The younger generation don't believe us when we tell them we realize we were fools to do it. They jingle big money in their pockets and coin purses, and look around for something expensive to buy, something they never felt they could afford before. We thought the big money came our way just because we were smart. So now the younger generation are so much smarter than we were 25 years ago that we can't tell them anything...