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Last week imaginative newsmen wrote that the Army was looking for squads of sweet young things to gladden the new soldier boys. Colonel Pfeil & associates pish-tushed these reports, harrumphed that Army hostesses will be just as impregnable as ever. How many Colonel Pfeil needs will be determined when he knows how many new huts (each one generally has three hostesses) he has to build for incoming Guardsmen, conscripts and one-year volunteers...
Only four days before, faithful Pat Harrison had given one of his best performances. Out of the White House he had stepped, dragged lustily on a banana-sized cigar, said: "Government receipts are making such a showing as to gladden our hearts. ... It may be that we can get along without a tax bill...
...Berthas, faster Heinkels. Most military pictures that cross from France and Britain represent life-savers-slicker gas masks, thicker walls, deeper holes. Last week, straight from a Hounslow, Middlesex, firm with the reassuring name of Concrete, Ltd., came some examples of British ARP (Air Raid Precautions) art which would gladden the heart of any wisely defensive ostrich...
...first month on the British Throne, King George VI last week continued to gladden his Government's heart by being as little like his abdicated brother and as much like his father as he possibly could. He had shown himself tractable by preferring the solid virtues of rural Sandringham to the glitter of London night clubs. He had reopened the Royal racing stables along the lines on which George V ran them. He was riding in sombre Daimlers and Lanchesters and not in slick American cars. He had even changed his policy about yacht racing to meet popular demands...
Will you never return, Sir, to gladden...