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Uptown, Downtown. Hazel got this lucrative bad habit while quite young. Born in Trinidad, she had lived in New York's Harlem most of her life. When she was a sober little girl of 13, she was given free piano lessons by a teacher in the Juilliard School. Her teacher got sick-the lessons stopped. She kept on studying the classics herself, but to relieve boredom, now & then sneaked in a few stray blue-notes and hot syncopations. This became instinctive to the point of a wonderful vice...
...doing so. For "Rheinhardt" is the Harvard riot call, and has started such famous rampages as the one in 1936 which wreaked destruction galore on the fair city and fair citizens of Cambridge, not to mention Radcliffe. Its origin, according to the tale, is to be found in the habit of a very lonely young man by that name, who used to go downstairs underneath his window and call up to himself so that his neighbors would think he was popular...
...Bureau already on hand at General Stilwell's mission-house headquarters-Correspondent Clare Boothe and Photographer George Rodger-so he decided to keep on going, borrowed a jeep and a Tommy gun and jolted his way south into the bloody Jap-trap at Yenangyaung. (It's a habit with him; he's been in the thick of the fighting of almost every critical campaign since China was invaded...
...Many a golfer who finds himself a bit tense and jittery pauses, takes a couple of deep breaths, and then makes his shot. It helps a lot. It may take some effort to get one's self into the habit of deep breathing; but with a little perseverance, it becomes automatic; and the results are excellent. The game is to make a start and stay with it. And this is true of almost every thing...
General Arnold did not lie. Everything he said about U.S. planes was technically accurate. He had simply fallen into an old Army habit of selecting facts which made his whole picture look a little better than the plain truth. For example, it may well be that U.S. fighter pilots in Britain are training and battling in Spitfires mainly because Britain has plenty of efficient fighter planes, and that the economical thing to do was to put U.S. pilots in those planes. But it is also true (and more revealing) that the U.S. now has no fighter plane, thoroughly proven...