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...advertisers, like Government publicity agencies, have been getting angry letters from people who think such mailings are wasteful and unpatriotic. This week The Reporter of Direct Mail Advertising confessed that "the direct mail business has just about gone to pot in the last month," blamed "people with axes to grind" for fanning shortage talk, cried "There is plenty of paper...
Book No. 2 is about MacArthur's men, the men of Bataan, "unafraid in their foxholes, good young men who loved their mothers and had all the usual hobbies, hunters, men who liked flowers, men who were good to their little sisters, men who could do the muscle grind and who were very active around their vicinity, never letting no one put nothing over on them...
...Roosevelt greeting made sense to President Prado. Peru's executive is no stuffed shirt. His father was twice President of Peru; a brother, the late Leoncio, is a national hero. Manuel Prado was a scientist, an industrial manager, a banker. But his rise had been a hard grind. His first political experience, as superintendent of a polling station in the elections of 1912, was a beating by a hostile mob. While an undergraduate at Peru's University of San Marcos, he enlisted in the Army as a private, saw front-line service during the war with Ecuador...
...month ago Tom Hall was a Sophomore at Harvard. Today he faces a two-year prison term. Hall was a scholarship student, a Group II man, although no one could call him a grind, and he spent more than twenty hours a week running the Student Food Service. He was a quiet fellow, interested in music and social anthropology, and in his political views inclining towards what his friends considered a somewhat naive utopianism. As a natural consequence he was a pacifist, and his beliefs made it impossible for him even to register for the draft. His refusal has earned...
...place on the members of the Varsity crew by the Fatigue Laboratory. Their rating generally is 100, or even more, and the more normal residue of the undergraduates are graded on a proportionate scale down to zero. But it is doubtful, they say, that even the most non-athletic grind could attain this lowest of scores...