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Confused Soldier. "Private Breger'' is a wide-eyed, overspectacled, freckled little soldier, clumsy, meek, confused but undismayed. Cartoonist Breger likes to think of "Private Breger" as typical of all the nation's millions of little men, to whom soldiering is alien, but who cheerfully acquiesced when war came. Through Private Breger, Cartoonist Breger translates Army life into civilian terms. One cartoon showed a squad of soldiers being stopped by a game warden, who demanded to see their hunting licenses. Like all artists, Breger has small idiosyncrasies which trade-mark his drawings. He always draws officers with jutting...
...Meek Fire...
Last winter an equally meek Crimson five met an equally high rated Indian quintet and the Brownmen took a Han-over scaip to the tune of a 49 to 36 beating. But that game was played on the floor of the Indoor Athletic Building, not in the lair of the Green aborigine. And a team playing on its home court is conceded a ten point edge in all the best wagering circles. When the Brownmen journeyed to Hanover last winter, after that sensational upset, the results were disastrous. Ten unbelieving Crimson cagers limped home, beaten...
...structure since 1919 has been illiberal by Western standards, and that Stalin's foreign policy up to June, 1941, was "extraordinarily and perversely blind." This strain of independent mental toughness, of a search for concrete solutions rather than purity of dogma; runs through the whole work. Cole is no meek follower of a pre-cooked theory...
Former newspaper colleagues in Boston (where he was city editor of the Transcript when it folded), New York and Chicago, are amazed at the gumption of meek little Morrison's broadcasts. When they knew him (not too well) he was the sort of self-effacing guy who worked hard, came and went methodically, rarely displayed his fine talents as a conversationalist. The cable editors of the Chicago Sun are amazed at his subtle outwitting of the Cairo censors. But at CBS it is Chester Morrison's voice itself that is considered most amazing. Says News Director Paul White...