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From a sympathetic observer last week came a report on an infantry division which the U.S. Army has watched with keenest interest: the Negro 92nd. The man who made the report was Truman K. Gibson, Negro civilian aide to War Secretary Stimson. The essence of what he had to say: the 92nd's battle performance had been something less than good...
...Ninth. The exact size and dispositions of the Ninth Army are secret, but it is the freshest, keenest U.S. army in the west. It was called on for almost no help against Rundstedt, and clung to its Roer positions while the First and Third Armies were hammering the bulge flat...
...Passage to India was first published in 1924. Beautiful, ironic, crystal-clear, intense - "one of the saddest, keenest, most beautifully written ironic novels of the time" - at once "a political document of the first importance," "a masterpiece of subtle characterization" with "a story that moved like a house on fire," A Passage to India evoked tremendous critical enthusiasm. In 20 years it sold almost 100,000 copies in the U.S., yet it never became an integral part of ordinary U.S. cultural life or political thought...
...never got tired of the Kat. In Herriman's 30-odd years of work - always wearing his hat and usually improvising fresh from the pen - he must have drawn something like 1,500 full-page Kats and 10,000 strips. An amazing number of them are the keenest, dizziest kind of inspiration. Wrote Critic Gilbert Seldes of Herriman's work 20 years ago: "In the second order of the world's art it is superbly first rate - and a delight!" Delight was Herriman's strongest point in a world where most artists had lost...
...interest, as he had proved to his army that his strategy was better than Napoleon's. Wellington suffered from many things-fever and loneliness in India that turned his hair grey at 32, a botched marriage; disgrace and empty victory and the fanatical hatred of some of the keenest brains in the Empire. He suffered from the misuse and thwarting of his genius from his childhood to his old age, wounds and hazards in battle, casualty lists so long that, as the Surgeon General read them to him in his moods of frightful despair after fighting, Wellington...