Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulldozer have all but covered the four-year-old litter of battle. But last week, belching fire like one of his own flamethrowers, the Marines' General Holland M. Smith scorched open an old, still angry scar. Writing with cantankerous zest in the Saturday Evening Post, "Howlin' Mad" revived his case against the Army's Major General Ralph Smith and his 27th Division, a New York National Guard outfit transferred to Marine command for the Saipan invasion...
Marines' Version. The essence of Howlin' Mad's case was simple: the 27th would not fight, and Ralph Smith would not make them fight (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944). Seven days after the Saipan landing he had ordered the 27th to move up between the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions for the big attack northward along the spine of the island...
...main difference between the Captain Midnight and Superman shows is that the Captain can't "leap tall buildings at a single bound," or perform any of Superman's other specialties. His scope of activities is thereby diminished, along with the quality of his antagonists. The villains may still be mad geniuses, but they don't pitch planets around. Some of them do threaten mankind, although on a lesser scale, of course...
Recently, for instance, Superman ran up against a mad genius called "Ghost Voice." Like any normal mad genius, Ghost Voice intended to conquer the world, and, through his familiarity with such contrivances as rocket-ships and atomic persuaders, damn near succeeded. But after weathering several molecular blasts, Superman balked the "power-crazed demon," who had had the United Nations eating out of his hand. Immediately following this chilling epic, however, Superman dawdled a whole fortnight, breaking up a dowdy bunch of racketeers engaged in fixing football games...
...reason. A few months after the election of 51-year-old Maximos V in 1946, a priest came upon him beating the walls of his quarters and crying: "This is not the post for a young man!" For almost three years the church has buzzed with rumors that the mad patriarch would soon be deposed, but only this month -with Maximos shelved in a sinecure-did the twelve metropolitans of Istanbul assemble with their five alternates to elect a new patriarch...