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...beginning of this year, it was suddenly clear that all of the experiments, all of the fighting, all of the training had coalesced. The U.S. had more than jets and bombs and intrepid pilots; it had, in the U.S. Air Force, the world's most powerful modern fighting outfit...
...young wife who wanted to see her husband in flashy sports clothes got a complete outfit at a Denver haberdashery...
...Lady for Ransom is told in the first person by an 11th century soldier-turned-monk who never raises his voice. In a Byzantine Empire setting in which rape and pillage were as common as piety, Author Duggan does not muster enough sex-and-sadism scenes to outfit a single chapter of many historicals. He simply tells a fine story full of color and action, informed with a sense of history as pervasive as it is unobtrusive. Professors trying to explain how the Turks were able to wallop the Christian armies of Byzantium could do much worse than assign...
...superior race, Gruver at first is disgusted to see American boys taking an interest in and even marrying Japanese girls with butterball shapes, burlap dresses and gold teeth. But he soon serves as best man at a Japanese-American wedding, and the groom, an airman from Gruver's outfit, drops a tantalizing hint: "G.I.s married to Jap girls always look as if they knew a big, important secret." Through the newlyweds, Lloyd meets willowy, honey-skinned Hana-ogi, who teaches him the Japanese women's big secret ("They make their men feel important...
When compared with last year's freshman outfit, which dropped only four individual matches all season, '57's team has a long way to go, but "in spirit, aggressiveness, and willingness to learn it already compares favorably with last year's group...