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Fort Apache (Argosy; RKO Radio), John Ford's first movie since his apostolically solemn Fugitive, is an unabashed potboiler. An idiotically reckless martinet (nicely played by Henry Fonda) tries to impose spit & polish on a begallused garrison in the Far West. After leading a suicidal charge against the local Indians, he is posthumously adored as a hero-except by the men (John Wayne, et al.) who had to carry out his orders. His daughter, a stock Pert Chit by the name of Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), meanwhile romances with a young officer (played, in appropriate magazine-illustration style...
...Lloyd McKin Garrison Award for the best poetry submitted by a Harvard undergraduate went to Kenneth Koch '48, of Cincinnati, Ohio and Kirkland House, whose financial gain is $165. Koch's poetry has appeared in many American literary magazines, including, of course, the Advocate...
...selective" one, the ultimate goal still remains the building up of adequate reserves. 2) Men 19 1/2 to 25, on the other hand, would go in for two years' training and service. Secretary Forrestal said that relatively few of these men would be assigned to occupation and garrison duty; the greater proportion would make up the nation's ready forces of invasion and defense. After discharge, these men would go into the inactive reserve...
...weeks ago 800 guerrillas attacked. Kalavryta's garrison-35 gendarmes and 200 newly mobilized national guards-resisted stoutly at first, but when ammunition ran short the gendarmes staged a sortie and got away. The guards' commander stood his ground, finally ended his life with his last bullet. Sixty-two defenders had been killed or wounded. The others surrendered and disappeared...
...Congressmen, Forrestal's chiefs of staff explained in astonishing detail how they would employ the military establishment which he proposed. A little more than a quarter of a million troops would have to be used in occupation and garrison duties. Alaskan forces should be increased from 7,000 to 15,000 combat and air-service troops. The balance (510,000) would be the nation's ready force, whose various missions would be to repulse an invasion, deny nearby bases to the enemy, secure faraway bases for the Air Force...