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...heart. As uppity as all armored units (they speak pityingly of "the poor goddam in fantry"), they had never forgotten that uppity, onetime armored division commander, George S. Patton, who said (with embellishments) : "You can't move a string of spaghetti by pushing it from the hind...
...neither the tiger tough ness nor the political agility of Premier General Kuniaki Koiso were of any avail. Four times in eight months of office he had staved off the inevitable by reshuffling his cabinet. Now he shuffled across the ancient moat to the Imperial Palace. Be hind the unmortared walls he bowed before Emperor Hirohito, confessed his failures, offered his apologies and the collective resignation of his cabinet...
VOYAGE OF THE GOLDEN HIND-Edmund Gilllgan-Scribner ($2.50). Two rival captains on the same ship vie for fish and the girl they love amid well depicted seascapes. Better than average adventure-romance...
That magnificent character, the British Lion, forgot his Anglican manners last week, got up on his hind legs, and roared right in the face of his U.S. ally. The roar raised a transatlantic gale, but it also vented British vapors which had accumulated during five years of mannerly restraint. Afterward, the Lion felt better. The American objects of his spleen knew a little more about him and perhaps about themselves. British-U.S. relations may even have been improved by the week's exchange. Said the New York Sun: "A steady diet of mutual admiration and respect would...
...Workers' Union frowned on sectional representation because it already had 16 members in Parliament, the cabbies overrode him, voted to go ahead. Grunted Spokesman Ted Morland of Fulham: "It's abaht time our ruddy trade got a look in. I wouldn't mind getting on me hind legs meself and telling ol' Winnie wot he ought to do abaht...