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...squads and platoons alongside continental Americans, rather than placed in separate units. The results in enforced understanding and companionship are often good and warming. But the language difficulty is serious. The result at the front is that squad and platoon leaders must communicate with their men in an awkward mishmash of straight American, pidgin talk and sign language, with occasional help from the few interpreters at hand. All this forwards the brotherhood of man. But it can be tough on night patrol in the cold wastelands between the lines, where each man's life may depend on perfect understanding...
...plus to put it together. Under Editor Leon E. Seltzer, 150 scholars worked in 55 different languages, collecting the latest facts & figures about 130,000 different places. But the job of making a gazetteer, they learned, is more than just collecting. It also involves disentangling a baffling mishmash of world statistics...
More & more U.S. painters are turning to abstract art. Many are trained, honest men who have already made reputations with pictures of recognizable things. Yet to most Americans, their abstract work is messy and meaningless-an energetic mishmash of blobs and squiggles. Why do they...
...20th Century-Fox in Let's Make It Legal. The injury turns out to have put her in double jeopardy by shifting her from 1950-3 best comedy to one of 1951'S worst. The film also traps Macdonald Carey and Zachary Scott in a dreary mishmash about a man wooing his wife all over again against the deadline of their divorce decree and the competition of her old rich beau...
Charlotte's Observer, the biggest (circ. 138,183) daily in the Carolinas, is a newspapering nugget of gold that seldom glitters. Its news pages are a typographical mishmash, its editorial voice a whisper. Yet because in its leisurely stride it picks up every crumb of news in its territory, the 82-year-old Observer is one of the biggest profitmakers of its size...