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...list includes: General Dwight Eisenhower, a 1912 halfback; Major General Vernon Pritchard, the pitching end of the Pritchard-to-Merillat team, a 1914 quarterback; Brigadier General La Verne ("Blondie") Saunders, a 1926-27 tackle; Brigadier General Charles Born, a 1927 All-America...
...books from the fighting fronts appeared steadily; they were generally competent, rarely outstanding. Among the favorites after Ernie Pyle's homespun anthologies; Jack Belden's frank, often bitter Still Time to Die; Target: Germany, the admirable, official story of the Eighth U.S.A.A.F. ; Captain Herbert L. Merillat's detailed report of the battle for Guadalcanal, The Island; Charles Wertenbaker's Invasion! For warmly personal reasons, Mina Curtiss' Letters Home, 254 samples of the billions of letters that U.S. service men have written home since they went to war, became a public favorite...
Last week Lieut. Herbert Merillat, late of Oxford University, public-relations officer on Guadalcanal, continued the history of the battle, which he is writing in Oxford-Marine-four-letter-word language. He would have been interested in some notes made by the Chicago Sun's John Graham Dowling, 29, son of Actor Eddie Dowling, during the three-day bombardment that preceded the correspondents' recent removal...
...minutes. Even should a player take so few as 67 strokes, as did Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. in the national amateur qualifying round last week, his strokes would come at an average of less than three minutes apart. - ED. in a letter signed by L. A. Merillat- which appeared in your issue of Aug. 15. In this letter the writer states "there are fewer horses in cities than formerly but more in the United States than in 1900. The exact number given by a recent report of the department of agriculture...
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