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Bent on turning out 100 pairs of trained eyes for the Army every five weeks until further notice, tall Colonel Stanton T. Smith, boss of the observers' school, has tried hard to impress his students with the importance of their jobs, to inject a little glamor into the skull-dragging drudgery of observers' work...
...exciting, terrifying, hilarious, gagging, slightly sanctimonious, good for their souls. Confesses Gauvreau: "I was a part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike." Better reading than Gauvreau's penitent philosophies are anecdotes of his colleagues. Samples...
...that the College Graduate, a hitherto highly exploited commodity that used to drug the market a hundred and fifty thousand strong every year, now has ten per cent more bargaining power! Instead of 150,000 young world-changers, all string-pulling, relative-bothering, contact-casting, desperately making appointments to impress 150 personnel managers, the situation will practically be reversed. And why? Because the national emergency has cut you down to 148,500 world-changers. Ten percent less graduate; ten per cent more are drafted from business. That leaves 120 per cent more jobs for 90 per cent of the usual...
Bock is the most fanatical. His fanaticism is military, not political. Leading an army into the Sudetenland, he took his twelve-year-old son, dressed in a sailor suit, along in his car "to impress on his son the beauty and exhilaration that lie in soldiering." German officers call him der Sterber, the dier, because of his great fondness for holding forth on the glories of dying for the Fatherland. It used to be generally said in Berlin that he had Russian blood in his veins. But it was blue blood...
...jobs, although their musical ability may be far greater than that of the stereotyped white bands which feather their nests with the proceeds of their successful mediocrity. Then too, once they hit the limelight, colored stars, like too many white players, are wont to sacrifice their playing styles to impress the multitude, as Eldridge is doing now. No matter how many Negro players are featured with white bands, they will do little to spread the popularity of their music unless they cease merely displaying their technical ability...