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Cripps and the Devil. Satirist Joad's Young Soldier is "a fine specimen of young English manhood, with a more enquiring turn of mind than is sometimes found among those who have emerged from the valley of the shadow of middle-class education." When his adventures begin, he has just been listening, in his mess, to a broadcast by Sir Stafford Cripps on What We Are Fighting For. Sir Stafford said we are fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides...
...ship helped take strong, virile American young manhood into the Solomons, and my ship also brought some of those same men out, wounded and sick and broken in body, but with spirit still alive and unbroken. I've listened to their spoken thoughts, and they do in fact mean business...
...Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky, the captor of Yelnya. A husky, keen-faced, long-nosed man, he is one of the Red Army's ablest tacticians. His myaso-roobka (meat-grinder) concept has dominated Soviet military thought since 1941, has bled Germany white of her young manhood. Sokolovsky's antidote for Blitzkrieg is slow, continuous grinding, a Verdun multiplied a hundredfold. The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat...
...archtypical Hollywoodman, John Decker, 47, was born in San Francisco. In his young manhood he appeared briefly on the stage, remembers playing a part in a Maxwell Bodenheim-Ben Hecht playlet called Master Poisoners. When his theatrical career flopped, he launched himself as an independent artist by cleverly copycatting famed portraits in which he substituted the face of his current sitter. Decker's first work of this kind was an "old master" portrait of divinely crosseyed Comedian Ben Turpin. Then he painted Charlie Chaplin in the style of twelve old & new masters including Frans Hals, Picasso, Howard Chandler Christy...
...hardboiled, stern Generalissimo, whose mother was a devout Buddhist, came under the influence of three powerful Christian influences in youth and early manhood-Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Mother" K. T. Soong and her daughter, Meiling. In 1930, three years after he had married the brilliant, Wellesley-educated Meiling, Chiang was baptized a Methodist, the faith of his wife and her family. But not until his captivity in Sian, by his testimony, did his religion become a part of himself, and thus a part of China...