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...Ordnance's jobs is to determine when soldiers' criticism of a weapon is based on fact and when it is just griping. In the case of the Royal Tiger and its 88-mm. gun, front-line criticism was impressively dismissed by fighting commanders, including Eisenhower and Patton, as a gripe. It was not until recently that field commanders decided the front-line men might be right and asked-but too late-for the T-26. There would not even be a token force of Pershings on hand now if Ordnance had not started building them more than...
...have my own troubles, too. I have to explain when I'm half an hour late from the movie. But when I stay home we fight. So I'm just living until the day Herb comes back. We used to gripe about our house: the roof leaked, we needed new screens, and all that. Well, just give me any old house now. Anything, anything...
Correspondents first took up SHAEF-sniping in earnest when it held up definite news of the German counteroffensive for four days. Since then SHAEF's 100 newsmen's chief gripe has been that stories cleared elsewhere, published, and therefore no longer involved in "military security" still could not be sent from SHAEF. Last week, SHAEF meted out the strongest punishment since D-day to a censorship violator: it canceled the credentials of BBC Correspondent Cyril Ray, who had an eleven-hour "scoop" on one story by simply bypassing censorship...
...Will It?" Sirs: . . . Photos of war casualties may make some work harder in vital industries, some gripe less, sacrifice more. But printing pictures of pitiful traffic tragedies (TIME, Dec. 25) will not make kids stop playing in the streets when there is nowhere else to play. It will not make truck drivers or other drivers cease driving as if they owned the streets. It will not make society rearrange its communities so that kids may have ample play space safe and separate from traffic lanes. Or will...
...regard to gripe No. 3 we feel that we can say no more than did Jean P. Hayden in her letter in TIME (Oct. 2). If the Army has any more loose medals they should throw one her way. She deserves...