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...Possibilities. It was too early this week to gauge the quick-flowing battle scene. Dourly General Anderson announced: "This is no picnic." Hitler has a big job if he is to shuttle enough troops to Tunis and Bizerte to fight more than a delaying action. The Allies also have a big job to get there fast enough in effective force. Since Hitler's job is apparently much bigger, the odds favored comparatively speedy Allied occupation. Once that is accomplished, the need for a continued "precision offensive" will continue. The battle for Tunisia is only the prelude to bigger things...
Dartmouth has not been praised to the skies, but that does not mean the Crimson has a picnic awaiting it in the Stadium. The Indians have a fast set of ball-carriers, as good a display of backfield talent as will be seen all year long...
...when he visited his home town, Palatka, as Florida's only admiral son, they gave him a big picnic. The Mayor spoke, praising Calhoun as Palatka's first citizen, greatest man. (Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell. U.S. Commander in China, also a Palatka son, had not yet gained fame.) Bill Calhoun, listening to the Mayor, began rocking with laughter. "Why are you laughing. Willie?" the Mayor asked. "When I was last here," Calhoun chortled, "your old lady was my schoolteacher.' When I went away she said, 'Willie Calhoun, you'll never amount to anything...
...wars failed to swerve from his preoccupation with female breasts and buttocks, John Carroll prefers women to barns, feels that good art is seldom inspired by current events or political ideas. A painter's job, he believes, is to idealize his subjects. "If I wanted to paint a picnic scene," he says, "instead of showing a picnic site littered with tin cans and bottles and rubbish, I would paint something that would make the spectator want to go on a picnic...
...Ashamed." Last week in Cleveland another hero spoke up bluntly. After listening to the Kiwanis Club discuss when & where to hold its picnic, up rose Lieut. William M. Bower, one of the 80 airmen who bombed Tokyo. Said he: "It's no picnic out there for your sons. They are having no good times. It is no time for good times. I'm disappointed by what I have found since I got back to my country. I'm disappointed at the failure of the people to realize that we are in a war-a war that...