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...deep in books. It is intended for the Freshman who thinks Harvard is all hard work, who is going to give up going with women and stick to the intellectual discipline of the University. It is for the man who thinks that he will, perforce, be faithful to his home-town love and will never have a chance to relax with the belies of Greater Boston...
Unpolished General. Editor Robinson looks upon his paper as a home-town weekly, no competitor to the big-city daily Stars & Stripes. His analysis of his readers: "The average G.I. Joe wants to see his name in print and likes to laugh at himself and his pals." Accordingly, Robinson handles front-line news in facetious but never flippant style. Battlefront pictures are taboo, since the doughboy knows what the front looks like. No button-polishing publicity sheet, 48th News carries officers' stories only when they are really interesting. (The division's general was interviewed when he took over...
...time he was 17 he was selling drawings to Judge. At 18 he went to Chicago to art school. He studied in Paris, came home, married a home-town girl he had loved since childhood, got busy cartooning for the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the Evening Mail, the Daily News, the Tribune. He was probably the first daily political cartoonist...
Many a U.S. soldier in England, after sampling Britain's flat, fizzless (and now watery) beer, has longed for the soft drinks of his home-town drugstore. Last week the Army announced that he will soon get them. Army post exchanges are importing soda fountains, drink-dispensing machines, ice-cream freezers. Also on the way: U.S. civilian soda jerkers, who will teach soldiers and civilian workers the trade, perhaps the lingo...
...subcommittee desk, and now called for a full-dress investigation. O'Mahoney's fight was bolstered by sensational feature stories in the Chicago Sun and New York City's leftish PM telling in great detail about slush funds, special pressures on Congressmen's home-town law firms, and a flood of almost identical letters to legislators...