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Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart has identified part of the Republican Party line as Socialistic propaganda. He has done this by so identifying the Army's Sad Sack recruiting booklet [TIME, Oct. 1] . . . What the Sad Sack booklet had to say about the "pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life" is only a repetition of what Republicans have been saying for 15 or 20 years...
...find a sedate, older woman for the job. What they finally got was a brash and breezy young man. Lynn White Jr. was a San Francisco minister's son who had studied at Union Theological Seminary and had taken his Ph.D. under Harvard's famed Medievalist Charles Homer Haskins. He was an expert on wine and cooking ("anything with garlic in it"), on 13th Century clocks and chivalry ("the culture of the horsy crowd"). And somewhere along the line, he had also become an unabashed expert on women's colleges...
...shot up, signaling the putout, as Robinson writhed on the ground, the wind knocked out of his body. Two innings later Robinson was a hero again. In the first half of the 14th, he connected with a fast ball, lifted it into the left field stands for the homer that won the game for Brooklyn, 9 to 8. Said Robinson afterward: "The minute I met it, I knew. I didn't even have to look at it. I knew it was gone...
Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart had a similar bone to pick with the Pentagon. The Army had asked Cartoonist George Baker to donate the use of his baggy, wistful comic-strip child, Sad Sack, to help the recruiting drive. Sad Sack first appeared in Yank, the wartime weekly, became so popular that he now runs in some 90 U.S. papers. With Cartoonist Baker's permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes...
Died. Jacob Homer, 96, last survivor of General George A. Custer's historic 7th Regiment, which was massacred at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876; of pneumonia; in Bismarck, N. Dak. A New Yorker who jo:ned the Army to see the West, he survived the battle because he was not there-there weren't enough horses to go around, and he had to stay behind when Custer made his last stand...