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TIME'S [March 11] direct quotation of Mr. Wolcott Gibbs's opinion on the Maxwell Anderson-Truckline Café fracas seems a bit cavalier on the surface, since Mr. Gibbs's published New Yorker version is worded quite differently from TIME'S. Realizing, however that TIME...
No train ran until three weeks ago. Then a locomotive chuffed out with a few cars. There was a rock-throwing fracas; a picket was shot at and wounded. A few days later, shotgun pellets ripped through a picket's shanty. Nobody was hit.
After a vocal first act, Sherwood fills his finale with action packed thrills and suspense. Spencer Tracy, once a vaccillating editor, joins the navy and finds himself a cook on a destroyer in the midst of a South Pacific naval fracas.
Why did Patton order such a desperate undertaking? One of the prisoners at Hammelburg was Patton's son-in-law, Lieut. Colonel John K. Waters, who was badly wounded in the fracas. Patton, denying that he even knew Waters was there when he launched the operation, displayed his personal...
Responsible Army, Navy & Marine Corps officers deplored the fracas. They had learned from bitter experience that the airing of such interservice differences could do grave harm.