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...between, he finds no difficulty in assigning a place to the most baffling tangle of cross-purposes.† The faculty enables him to read a three-paragraph dispatch about some remote and complicated affairs and come to an instant decision on what must be done. . . . Politically, Grafton [onetime office mate of Columnist Fisher] has been a supporter of the New Deal, although he grows restless because it hasn't accomplished as much as he can do any afternoon in half an hour at the typewriter." Columnist Fisher also notes that 36-year-old Grafton "has been critical...
...tell you, mate. If you go up the trail another 40 yards . . . and ask those guys up there-they might be able to give...
...result of all this foolishness, which incidentally, includes one of the cleverest dream sequences we've seen, is that the uncouth sand-hog, whom, Claudette bates, detests, despises--only we know better is transformed by some hocus-pocus into an eligible, even desirable future mate...
...their lighter moments they build swank officers' messes in the deep jungles with handsome bars and flagged terraces (to the envy of the hard-living Army). In the South Pacific they laid out golf courses, constructed baseball diamonds, volleyball courts and movie amphitheaters. On Tulagi, Chief Machinist Mate Bernard M. Vinck hung out three coconuts for a pawnshop sign, began making "Tulagi Academy" rings, like the cherished Naval Academy rings-except that Vinck's were snail shell "cat's eyes" set in aluminum stripped from shot-down Jap planes...
...casualties have been few. Boatswain's Mate Henry Trongone, manufacturer of women's coats, fell overboard one day but was quickly fished out. Mr. Trongone and the contents of his pockets, $1,200 in bills, were spread out in the galley...