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...booknotes for the Nation. When Irita Van Doren became editor of the Herald Tribune's book section (1926), she got Bell to do its brief reviews. He has been doing them ever since. In one summer-fiction number of the supplement he guided readers to 65 examples of hammock reading, wrote nine reviews and a long article summarizing the year's light fiction-almost half the supplement...
...faint light of the moon the Americans watched the Japanese creep toward them from the edge of the airstrip. Sometimes Japs crawled to the very edge of the cavalrymen's foxholes before they were killed. One major told me he was going to sleep in his hammock that night and suggested that I do the same thing. During the night, however, troops near by heard a commotion and the major called out: 'Don't shoot, boys, it's Major - !' Nothing more was heard. The next morning they found the major dead, his head nearly severed...
...forks. . . . Left canoes to continue on foot . . . decided to cut trail to try and locate plane. Bearings S. 72° E. . . . Put under observation by native Indians. They actually believe we are crazy for doing this. . . . Jungle night studded with an incredible concentration of stars per square lightyear. A hammock strung between two trees at the edge of the clearing. The hut is quiet. Voices recede and stop. The jungle night takes over . . . a big cat prowls around looking for something to kill. . . . Presently she materializes out of the night. Instead of reaching for the coffee cup she presents...
There is no known way to make war cozy, but publishers and popular novelists have done their best to enable summering readers to go to war in a hammock. These five novels are some of their doings. One is a worthy, serious book. Some are a mere buzz. All are easy hot-weather reading...
...Navy liked all this. But the decision to hitch a training hammock in Bayview was made for other reasons. The new base will supplement the huge Great Lakes Training Station, already jampacked with more than 30,000 future tars. Using an eight-week period, and with an initial capacity of 20,000, Bayview in August will start turning out some 130,000 sailors annually. Although the lake is large enough and deep enough for any Navy ship afloat, main equipment will be sturdy little "pulling boats" (whaleboat-type lifeboats...