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...Mihailovich's example has kept all Yugoslavia in a wild anti-Axis ferment. The Axis has resorted to executing untold thousands, but the revolt continues. Last month the Nazis said they had seized Mihailo-vich's wife, two sons and daughter, threatened to execute all relatives of Mihailovich's army and 16,000 hostages if the General did not surrender within five days. He did not. It is a misfortune that conquered Europe cannot learn detail by detail the effective methods used by the gaunt, hard, bronzed fighter on TIME'S cover (painted...
...alcohol, also a solvent without which the chemical industry is helpless. We could ferment it from wheat, barley, or rye, although, through sheer inertia, we stick to molasses, although Germany has been fermenting potatoes for two decades. And only the Axis has bothered to distill it from coal or wood...
...What is Semitic 12, Sociology 19, English A2, and History 14a in comparison with the daily forming and stating of idealism's, the angry bull-sessions, the satisfaction of homeward treks as the sun comes up, the dashing of hopes, and the sudden thrill of Making The Board, the ferment intellectual and otherwise, the roar of the presses, the reports of the thoughts and actions of Harvard and of the world? "The House Committee reports . . . more organization . . . as President . . . lack of advertising . . . hope for the future . . . annual assessment . . . scooped the Boston papers . . . Lampoon incident . . ." Vag nodded approvingly: the old wise...
...Army's end is the big one: $5,127,647,652. Beyond its provision for upping the strength of the Army to 2,000,000 men, the bill also shows the results of the Army's orderly ferment about the changing tactics of modern warfare: it provides for a new kind of military outfit, an organization that grows directly from military thought and experimentation in this year's maneuvers...
Among the avantgardistes who ferment, sometimes germinally, at the thin edge of commercial publishing, the year's most notable were Henry Miller and Kenneth Patchen. Miller continued with Michael Fraenkel his extraordinary correspondence about Hamlet ($3) and published The Colossus of Maroussi ($3.50), a freewheeling book on Greece. Patchen's privately printed The Journal of Albion Moonlight ($5) was a nightmarish image of the state of the human soul in the year...