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Point. Historians may well marvel at the tasks thrust on the 77th Congress; in no other country were the overwhelming chores of global war thrown on such a heterogeneous group of men & women. Some future Reveille in Washington will record the solemn manner in which Franklin Roosevelt asked for a declaration of war, the triumphant grin on Poll-Taxer Theodore Bilbo's face, the specter of Prohibition unearthed by Josh Lee, the invective poured out by Montana's Burton Wheeler, the ringing periods of Visitor Winston Churchill's oration in the House Chamber, the turbulent, sweaty, exhausting...
When Frank Merriwell was at Yale, things were different. Unhampered by single wingback formations, looping defenses, scouting reports, and five-man lines, the Eli marvel just appeared on the field the day of the Harvard battle, with al loyal band of unpracticed players who were undismayed by a huge, fearful Crimson foe, and snatched victory from defeat with a daring last-second dash in a duel of flying wedges. Merriwell did not have to think about a war, or the fact that Harvard was playing its most honored and blasphemed rival for the last time for the duration. Back...
...route-also the most lightly defended-and fell on Beauregard's left. The Confederates owed their victory not to Beauregard but to the common sense of some of his brigade commanders, who heard heavy firing and decided to take their men toward it. "What seemed in retrospect a marvel of distant control by Beauregard was, in reality, the work of Colonel [Philip St. George] Cocke"-one of the richest planters in Virginia...
...Australians ceased to marvel at the Jap miracle of bringing one 37-mm. gun over those mountains. In fact, they discovered they could bring heavier 25-pounders themselves when they decided to go forward over the smaller peaks. The Japs had dug trenches, set up machine-gun nests in the roots of trees, piled up log barricades-but evidently thought better of their plan to defend their foremost ridge, 88 long miles over the mountains from their Buna supply base...
...that fellow is Westbrook Van Voorhis, whom you fellows were smart enough to sign up exclusively for the MARCH OF TIME broadcasts. He is so distinctly superior to any other announcer on the air-both in his dramatic narrative and his commercial "plugging"-that I marvel at the lack of publicity and recognition regarding him. Surely, anyone who has ever faced a microphone realizes that he has the toughest assignment of anyone who appears on the show, and everyone realizes what a consistently super job he turns in, week after week. His sharp sense of the dramatic, his absolute command...