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Regular tank producers, meanwhile, are stepping out. Chrysler-biggest medium tank outfit-is starting to triple its plant. Ford is rushing work on his Highland Park factory, hopes to make 400 mediums a month before year's end. General Motors' Cadillac division is retooling for light tanks; Fisher Body will be turning out medium & heavy tanks by the fourth quarter...
...Year's Eve, a little group of men gathered on the river bank at Poughkeepsie. Some of them were oldtime rivermen. Others were just old inhabitants of Poughkeepsie or from Highland, across the river-men who had ridden the Poughkeepsie ferry countless times, like their grandfathers and great-grandfathers before them...
...Strong nationalists themselves, the Pol ish soldiers have been quick to appreciate that Scotland is Scotland, not a part of England, and they share in Scottish pride. One Polish lieutenant answered "English slanders" about highland weather: "Actually our Scotland has a better climate than London...
...Polish Army choir has further built up good will by adding a Slavic swing to the highland lilt of Loch Lomond and Bonnie Dundee...
...Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (Macmillan; $2.50), edited by Hugh MacDiarmid, is a definitive collection of Scottish verse (much of it written in the Scots' language); and the editor, in an introductory essay as prickly with his native thought as a Highland moor is with heather, goes a long way towards putting Scottish poetry into its right place in the total perspective of the world's literature. Scottish poetry, Editor MacDiarmid points out, is capable of being both genuinely literary, and popular with the common people-something that English poetry has never succeeded in being. Editor MacDiarmid makes...