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...toughness begins with a thundering, all-out attack. The boys are no taller than 5 ft. 7 in., but they have been got into walloping condition by tall, dark Coach Louis Weintraub, who toured Japan with Michigan's championship basketball team in 1929. He calls his squad the "Commando Class" and puts it through such daily musts as 20 chin-ups, 75 pushups, 30 dips on the parallel bars and a 20-ft. pole climb in less than ten seconds without using the legs...
...diversionary force, about 150 Commando-trained troops, slipped into rubber landing boats, headed for Blue Beach. The Japs may have thought this the main show. At close range they opened fire with machine guns and a light cannon and the U.S. loss was heavy. The fire destroyed eleven of 16 American boats, killed or wounded most of the 150 expendables, forced the remnant to turn back...
Their book is less a handbook than a lively, disorderly, hair-splitting collection of obiter dicta. In an agile linguistic commando raid Authors Graves & Hodge survey the terrain of English prose and map its modern contours. Armed with 25 "principles of clear statement" they blast at 54 recent writers...
...Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, ex-editor of New York City's leftist PM; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ($2), Captain Ted Lawson's report (written by Journalist Bob Considine) on the Doolittle raid; Eve Curie's North African Journey Among Warriors ($3.50); Commando Lieut. Colonel Robert Henrique's The Voice of the Trumpet ($2); Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8 ($2) and Battle for the Solomons ($2); John Hersey's Into the Valley ($2); Jack Belden's Retreat With Stilwell ($3); Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War ($3); Hilary St. George Saunders' Combined...
...toning down of the propaganda is not as reasonable, however, for it has been carried to a point where the picture certainly is milder than the swarms of commando picture blurbs. Beyond these limitations the book has been faithfully reproduced so that it can be truthfully said that the faults of the picture are the faults of the book as a screen play...