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Elizabeth Gellhorn [TIME, April 13] and other jealous Yankee gals appear perturbed about so many soldiers being in England this spring. Elizabeth expresses her jealousy by denouncing the English mother of an American soldier's illegitimate quads. A friend of mine in a letter last week expressed it in classic parody: "Oh to be in England now that the Army's there." British females, given good girdles and such, silk stockings, high heels, a permanent wave and a good set of cosmetics, could easily come up to American standards of beauty. After five years of war they aren...
Wedlock. In Detroit, Mrs. Madge J. Williams won a divorce on the charge that her jealous husband bought a padlock soon after they were married, locked her in their bedroom every day before going to work...
...pious advocate of Confucian virtues, Warlord Chiang was also responsible, Gayn claims, for ten years of military bloodshed. Today, Author Gayn believes, Chiang is at once "a ruthless and intolerant man ... a pious Christian ... a canny politician ... a national unifier of the caliber of Bismarck and a petty and jealous political boss . . . consumed by a passion for power...
Said he: "The sooner our soldiers write home and say how lovely the English ladies are, the sooner American dames will get jealous and force the war to a successful conclusion. And then I'll have a chance to go and kill the Japanese...
...Stephanos Saraphis, ex-colonel in the Greek Army, led a guerrilla band liquidated last year by the jealous EAM. As an example to other rivals, EAM paraded Saraphis in chains through the Greek hinterland. Then, by some yet unexplained persuasion, Saraphis sold himself as a general to the Leftists. Now he commands, with distinction, a big guerrilla force eyried in the Pindus...