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Even when it came time to go the reporters were told merely to report to a London address, were whisked on from there to embarkation points. LIFE'S Lincoln Barnett loaded his duffel into a taxi, told the driver to "Head on down Piccadilly," lest even his friends hear the address of the rendezvous. The New York Herald Tribune's William W. White shoved off without explanation, leaving a large, tweedy wardrobe in the apartment of bewildered friends. Chicago Daily Newsman William Stoneman, just returned to London from a long vacation, wired his boss abruptly: "Taking long vacation...
...when the last bewildered rookie rolls off the train with his lumpy duffel bag, the division is born. Under the barking of the noncoms it grows from infancy to gangling, slack-kneed adolescence. It marches, shoots, gets wet in the field, straightens its legs, grows hard and smart. If its officers and noncoms are on the job, it finally grows up; its rookies become soldiers in less than a year. And each new division knows that many of the outfits on Bataan Peninsula had no longer a time to grow before they had to prove that they had come...
...coastline is easily "reachable" by* every power in Asia, the U. S. Army for years wanted to cast the Islands off. But few Army men were surprised when General Douglas MacArthur, ending a long and brilliant term as U. S. Chief of Staff, packed his elegant duffel and sailed to Manila as the Commonwealth's Military Adviser (TIME, Sept. 30). General Mac Arthur's mission is to set up in the next two years a military establishment, costing 16,000,000 pesos ($8,000,000) and enrolling 19,000 men, which will try to keep the Philippine Republic...
...virginal leading lady, cuckolds his deserving brother-in-law, demoralizes his amiable wife (Mary Philips). Faber manages to commit all this emotional mayhem with unbounded arrogance, callousness and a certain amount of charm which is conveyed by witty sayings and an engaging incompetence when wrestling with a trick duffel bag. The audience is likely to take Faber's victims at just about Faber's low and careless appraisal, an effect which Authors Kaghan & Philips probably do not intend...
...Manuel Quezon on his last trip to Washington secured the services of the biggest military man in the U. S. ? General Douglas MacArthur. Last week, after the longest leadership of the U. S. Army in history, General MacArthur announced his resignation as Chief of Staff, packed his elegant duffel to sail for Manila as the Commonwealth's Military Adviser...