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...more & more United Nations ships go to the bottom, food is becoming the No.1 problem on the British home front. Last week the London Daily Herald burst out with a "Lick That Platter Clean" campaign. "The time has come," said the Herald, "when we must clean our plates with bread and send nothing back to the kitchen. . . . Jam, marmalade and all preserves must be dropped on to the food and never on to the plate...
Japanese flying ships are playing over the Mandalay Road in a fashion Kipling never imagined. Jap pilots fix towns under their sights like bugs beneath a microscope, stab them with hundreds of incendiary plummets, consume wide wooded areas and wipe out scores of villages. Flames nightly lick the demi-jungle under a full yellow moon, so that a ghastly orange ring encircles Burmese arsonists, looters, desolate lines of Indians' oxcarts beginning to go northward on their long hegira to India, and Chinese trucks, cyclists, American scout cars and artillery going southward to the front...
...Moro," said Jack Pershing, after fighting in the Philippines, "can lick his own weight in wildcats." Moro fighting men on the island of Mindanao last week carried out two of the wildest and most feline raids of the war. They sneaked on cat feet into a Japanese supply base near Digos, a port on the Gulf of Davao, and burned warehouses containing "large stocks of food, gasoline, ammunition and other military supplies." Near Zamboanga they crept in camouflaged force toward one side of the town, made as much noise as Kilkenny cats on the other, then rushed against the rear...
...Superman is now in a really tough spot that even he can't get out of. His patriotism is above reproach. As the mightiest, fightingest American, he ought to join up. But he just can't. In the combat services he would lick the Japs and Nazis in a wink, and the war isn't going to end that soon. On the other hand, he can't afford to lose the respect of millions by failing to do his bit or by letting the war drag...
...Author. The Foreigners is an excellent introduction to China and her people in war & peace. It also introduces a distinctly talented if uneven new writer. Preston Schoyer left Yale in 1933 determined never to do a lick of work if he could possibly help it. Nevertheless, for two years he taught and coached at Yale-in-China. After graduate work at Yale in Oriental studies, he spent another year writing short stories in Manhattan. In 1938 he returned to wartime China...