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...both cases he neglects with no more than a passing scoff the maxim that an attack cannot be made with a reasonable hope of success unless a number of calculable and near-calculable military factors weigh on the side of the attacker. He cites his favorite General, Foch, who sent a marvelous message to the bumbling "Papa" Joffre before the First Battle of the Marne stating that his center, his right, and his left were in terrible shape, that the situation was excellent, and that he was attacking. He forgets, it would appear, that the situation was excellent only because...
...came out last week. It came not from the Army or Navy but from the Agriculture Department's Crop Reporting Board. CRB's latest report-on 1942 farm planting-was, as usual, statistics-crammed, unreadable. But in the light of Secretary Claude Wickard's maxim: "Food will win the war and write the peace" (TIME, July 21), CRB's communiqué showed that the U.S. had won the first big engagement in the Battle of the Soil...
...language of the dress business is extravagant, but, even in plain English, genius is the word for Nettie. Her peculiar genius is summed up in her favorite maxim : "It's what you leave off a dress that makes it smart." Luckily for her, this passion for simplicity coincided with the emancipated anti-ruffle trend started by Paris' great Paul Poiret around 1916, the year before Nettie started making clothes for her friends (and their friends) as well as for herself. For four years she did all her work in her brownstone house, but by 1921 so many customers...
...proud that it has fallen to our lot to smash Hitler's war machine, but we by no means insist on exclusive rights. . . ." U.S. Answer. Maxim Litvinoff's nation, alone among the Allies, had taken the full shock of the Nazi machine. He feared that his nation would be alone again when spring brought a new German attack...
...same night that Maxim Litvinoff spoke, Wendell Willkie, whom Americans like because he talks like so many of them, addressed Hollywood's Academy Awards dinner...