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Nothing but the Best. The only legends which have grown up around Krueger have their origin in his directness and outward severity. He is as much a stickler for military form as though he were in the Prussian army. His jeep driver in the combat area must wear proper battle dress, carry full equipment. An officer must execute every order fully and on time, and report on his mission, in proper form. Never having needed an alibi himself, Krueger will take none from others. His inspections are searching, and reflect his deep regard for those vital instruments...
...memorandum contained one hint and one joker. The hint: "The present state of things [said the Argentines] creates divisions that are incompatible with the traditional spirit of brotherhood existing among nations bound by proximity, origin and ideals." The U.S. is not near Argentina, does not share, to the Argentine nationalist mind, the same "origin and ideals." Perhaps some Argentines hoped to split the Hemisphere into Latins v. Anglo-Saxons, shove the U.S. toward the doghouse...
...accomplished pianist and has a lightning musical memory that enables her to write down or play a complicated piece a week after hearing it. She has long been interested in the indigenous music of the Southwest, and many of her works have themes of Amerindian or Mexican origin. An Oklahoma oilman suggested the idea for her new Mass, which she has been working on since last Christmas...
...special commission will determine which Japs have been loyal to Canada and which Japs disloyal. The disloyal Japs, citizens or not, will be deported to Japan, whether born there or not. The loyal Japs will be treated justly. "No person of Japanese origin," the Prime Minister remarked, "born in Canada, has yet been charged with any act of sabotage or disloyalty...
Following admission to the Mastership came the "Act," origin of our Commencement Parts. The idea was that the complete Master of Arts ought to show his stuff, as it were, before the university let him go. Commencement parts opened in the thirteenth century, as now, with a Latin speech, which was supposed to show as much with as the speaker was capable of. In the later middle ages and Renaissance the object of the salutatory orator was to make the presiding dignitaries as angry as possible with personal remarks and obscene qulps...