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...Peacock-proud of another break from the textbooks, bluff Ben Lear hopes to give Ranger training to every young officer and noncom, send him to his new division with plenty to teach. Like every other ranker charged with training, he has watched combat reports, talked to returning soldiers. Chief lesson from these sources is that even crack outfits are jittery, indecisive and prone to suffer high casualties in their first meetings with the enemy. By making home-training courses tougher, noisier and more dangerous, the Army is confident lives can be saved, battles won more quickly...
...Louis Bromfield by Ray Long, A Farewell to Farms by Mark van Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League of American Vipers, but that is another snory...
Proud as a peacock of this last prize display, Tom Connally sent the press gallery a note. It read...
...Southern Cross to Peru, where he was received as a king. He financed an archeological expedition, gave Peru a million-acre public park, named for the donor, who felt warmly in his heart that Peru would not soon forget the name of Wenner-Gren. He was proud as a peacock when the University of Cuzco gave him an honorary doctorate, and the soft-footed servants who now minister to him and his wife in Mexico have been trained to call him "Doctor...
...Nose. In Columbus, Ga., R. P. Peacock sat down to watch a ball game, declared to a companion: "I hope no one scores until the last half of the ninth. Then I hope we get a home run." He got his wish...