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...booklet, Meet the U.S. Army, issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office. Roughly paralleling the U.S. Army's Short Guide to Great Britain in purpose, this handbook on American character was written by pale, pensive Louis MacNeice, 35-year-old Anglo-Irish poet, author of Plant and Phantom, Autumn Journal, etc. Since the war MacNeice has bloomed as a top-notch BBC script writer. He acquired American background in 1939 and 1940, when he traveled widely in the U.S., lecturing on literature, and gave a course at Cornell for one term. Some of his book...
...past. War is far away. Of all places in India, the hill stations are the most British. Simla, with its gingerbready shops, its dingy hotels and antiquated houses, is strangely Victorian. Time seems to have stood still since Kim contemplated the twinkling lights of Jakko, and the Phantom Ricksha made its ghostly rounds...
...seldom gets extremely cold in the Aleutians-temperatures below zero are rare-but it never gets warm. The williwaws* chill the bleak islands. The men on the islands wear bulky, waterproof clothes, fur-lined caps or knitted "phantom hats" which can be lowered over the face. Coveralls and boots are standard outer wear for ground crews...
...Phantom. In The Bronx, Robert Johnson failed to outwit the police. They charged he threw a barrel full of ashes through a tailor-shop window, went in and emptied the barrel, filled it up with clothes, and tried to make his getaway wrestling his burden down the street...
More important, however, was the psychological effect created all afternoon by the Fordham Phantom. Throughout the contest he continually threatened to break away, and the fact that one and sometimes two men had to be watching him at all times somewhat hampered the otherwise superb Crimson defense...