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...have just returned from three weeks at Military Camp as a member of the 3rd Battalion of the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada-and from my close contact there with 600 of the finest specimens of young Canadian manhood I cannot allow the anti-British opinions of Arthur T. Whitehouse to go unchallenged (TIME, Sept...
Such babes in arms as reach manhood soon after registration day probably will not get their chance to be interviewed until next year, Weden stated...
...with no map or compass, but a little money and some cubes of chocolate in his pockets, and had eventually taken refuge at the bottom of a mine. It described and-with the exception of the age and the mustache, which was just a medal of not-quite-certain manhood-still does describe Winston Churchill...
...Empire Will Not Die, cool, hardheaded Albert Viton turns his back on the rest of his book, begins to comfort himself and the reader with such emotional catch-phrases as "this amazing little island"; to deliver such debatable statements as "Few countries can boast as high a type of manhood as that produced by the public schools of England"; to remark, "The septuagenarian Neville Chamberlain is symbolic of the virility of the English people"; and to snort "To say that war exhausts is as much nonsense as that exercise weakens." After his long persuasions that night must fall, such whistling...
...bottom of the American heap, (like himself) had to struggle, (like himself) won, but a boy whose main activity (unlike Mickey's) was investigating, inventing, thinking. Mickey Rooney not only had to make young Tom Edison plausible, he had to create the boyhood basis for a legendary manhood. He gave the role his most sober and restrained performance to date. That he did not succeed entirely was partly the fault of the production, partly because the picture featured Mickey in a role so different from his usual ones that puzzled cinemaddicts did not know what bewildered them most-seeing...