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Boom in Books. The U.S. book business is booming as never before. In spite of paper rationing, 250 million books were produced last year. Homebound civilians have thumbed books up toward the entertainment class of movies, radio and magazines. The Army & Navy are stimulating a book-reading habit by distributing 3½ million pocket-size books* a month to the armed services...
People do vote by custom or habit, it is true, but they may get wise to a lawyer's bag of tricks...
...peace he rises at 5:30 or 6 a.m., a habit which he admired in General Wood...
Readiness to spread and act upon rumor and exaggeration is a fault to which Chinese and U.S. soldiers are especially prone. The Chinese like to indulge "the vicious habit" of self-dramatization, and flattery of their superiors. But, "of the many exaggerated stories I have heard in seven years . . . none can surpass those told by American pilots and infantrymen...
When he is concentrating on something, which is often, Crerar clears his throat with a series of rasping half-coughs. This habit has convinced him that he has a chronic cold. In Ottawa he used to keep a box of cough drops in his desk. One night, with his eyes glued on the papers he was reading, he groped for them in the drawer and a mouse ran up his sleeve. Hearing a startled bellow, the General's military secretary ran in to find him open-mouthed and shaking. Crerar sent the secretary out for more cough drops...