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...prize honor of the year, much to the joy of the Crimson, was pulled by a Yale man. Early in the training period the battalion was subjected to gas mask drill. Each man was issued a mask and taught how to put it on in drill formation. The command was: By the numbers, gas, 1, 2, 3. Each command was the signal for some action--taking the mask out of its case, putting it over the face, and finally putting...
Seven weeks ago, tea-colored Ben Davis took over twelve black cadets. Eleven of them were college graduates, five had already won their private pilot's licenses. For five weeks straight-backed Captain Davis gave them the military works: close-order drill, military courtesy, the fundamentals of soldiering. Two weeks ago he joined them in front of the planes, began to take flying instruction from a civilian staff (three Negroes, one white...
Last week, when ex-Miner Bevan stood up in the House to talk about coal, he went as accurately and painfully as a dentist's drill to the sorest spot in the British Government's war-labor policy...
...London's Brixton Prison, began taking German lessons. / / Antanas Smefona, self-exiled President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone in close order drill and calisthenics, won a promotion to corporal. / / Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) went to work in Leningrad as a fire fighter. / / The public library of Southport, England, threw out 90 books by P. G. Wodehouse, termed them "waste paper." / / Wandering Ex-King Carol of Rumania showed signs...
...personnel of the draft army is as split on this issue of intervention v. isolation as the general public is. But the doctrine of isolation . . . as I have observed it in the Army, is a poisonous thing. . . . Our own officers, to my mind, are not tough enough to drill into the men the idea that Hitler-alone-is our enemy and that Naziism must be destroyed before America is safe. Perhaps somebody ought to quit talking about defense and start talking about war. You'd be amazed at the number of men in the Army today who blindly seem...