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...have just received a letter from my husband, Captain Henry Pollard, who is a dental officer with the ist Infantry Division in North Africa, enclosing a clipping from the May 10 issue of TIME...
...movie magazines. The bond-selling tours of such figures as Fairbanks. Pickford, Hart and Chaplin, though vociferous, were mild compared with the riotous junkets of World War II. Even the publicity stunts had a certain innocence. Sample: Mary Pickford's "adoption" of 600 men of the 2nd Battalion, ist California Field Artillery, each of whom wore her picture in a gold locket and, for the duration, undertook to use tobacco she furnished...
Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Method ist, had the delegates in to tea, praised the work of missionaries in China...
...IST LIEUT. ROBERT C. DAVEY...
...hand combat. They had heavy artillery which covered the hills on both sides of the pass and the valley between. And they had observation posts on the highest peaks which could direct their fire anywhere. The 9th Division, in its first offensive action, could not keep pace with the ist. Its officers, particularly the battalion and company commanders, were not so well trained or experienced. But the 9th's performance, though ragged, was no disgrace: it was up against a terrain that was ideally suited to defense and had been prepared for months...