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Harvard, like Boston, was founded on cowpaths, and since the average Freshman's mentality has little in common with a cow, he has some difficulty in finding his bearings. But map in hand, and with a few pointers in his head, Mr. '46 will, in the space of a couple of months, have fairly well memorized the ins and outs of his surroundings...
Eventually, the Germans took the hill. Upon a map at Bock's headquarters, many miles from the fighting, a pin moved. The Field Marshal's green eyes glowed. The forward dance of the pins on the map meant to him, too, that men were dying. It was a meaning that, for him and his Prussian kind, was as real as it was for all the Kochetkovs on the hills. And too much death, Bock knew, can stop the movement of the pins-it stopped them last fall when he threw his armies in costly assaults upon Moscow...
...pins danced forward on the Prussians' map...
...Only a year ago, there were many loyal Americans-and I was one of them -who felt that this was not our war. We used to say that if the Soviets were wiped off the map it would be good riddance, and that the feeble, guilty old British Empire was not worth one American life. . . . Humiliating as it is, I am ready to confess that we were wrong and President Roosevelt was right. It was our war from the first...
...fantastic story involves a timid map-maker, Charles Butterworth, who comes home one day to find his whole family engaged in war work of one kind or another. Trying to keep in step, he gets pushed around mercilessly until he conceives the idea of trapping the Jap fleet with a phoney map of Shangri-La. After an interlude in a Jap internment camp done with extremely poor taste, the map is found to be genuine; but Papa saves the day by informing the U. S. forces of some nearby islands that would rise above water on the next...