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...reception centres rookies were shucked out of mufti, inoculated, vaccinated, shod and asked such questions as: "How many nickel cigars can you buy for 20??'' "How many dozen will 42 oranges make?", asked to say whether a pistol was a gun, a knife, a sword or a pencil...
Periodically Army books on waging war are overhauled, precepts modernized. No last-minute second-guesser, the Infantry's chief sat down one day in mid-1939, pondered French and German infantry texts, began to pencil a revision of the U. S. foot soldiers' bible. Editor Lynch concurred with German theories of fluid movement, frowned on French notions of static, dig-in defense. Last June, dispatches from Paris indicated that he had been dead right...
...Terribly bored" by his detainment at a Seville hotel, Rumania's ex-King Carol II ordered up a thousand sheets of foolscap, commenced to pencil his memoirs...
...entire written material of the program will have to be read and approved by Arthur Wild, the University's are censer and blue pencil expert, before it can go on the air, Professor Murdock decrees last night...
...Poughkeepsie station President Roosevelt smoked calmly until the train from the north came in-green coaches emblazoned with the Canadian crest. Protocol-Master George Thomas Summerlin dropped his hand-rolled, brown-paper cigaret, brushed off his pencil-stripe trousers, walked down the station stairs to greet the tweedy Guards-mustached Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada, his wife, Princess Alice, their daughter, Lady May Abel Smith...