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...efficacy of headlong assault. That was the Marines' own traditional philosophy of battle : throwing the big punch, subjecting an enemy to constant pressure, risking big initial casualties in violent assault rather than submitting to a long, wearing attrition. Second Lieut. Shepherd, U.S.M.C., went into action as a platoon leader with the 5th Marine Regiment at Belleau Wood, was hit in the neck by a machine-gun slug, fought on with his men for three days and was hit again before he finally went to the rear...
...bomb or not, nothing can deprive the corps of its pride in itself and its past, and its confidence that those are the best guarantees against an uncertain future. Explained a World War II platoon leader at Camp Lejeune last week: "The only way I can describe it is like this: I was in three actions in the Pacific. I never had to look behind...
...Halfback Leon Hardeman, finally get untracked. With a pair of downfield blockers paving the way, Hardeman's substitute, Dick Pretz, ripped around right end for 11 yds. and a touchdown. That was all the scoring for the day, but Tech's fast, rangy (191 lbs. average) defensive platoon bent to its task with ferocious tackling and held Alabama at bay. Final score...
Dick Kazmaler and Dick Pivirotto passed up the game because of a conflicting exam, but the Busy School had little trouble with the Yalies, eventually using the defensive platoon on offense and the offensive platoon on defense...
...believes that sooner or later he can hook up enough amplifiers, tone arms and speakers in his living room to make his recordings sound just as good as a performance in a concert hall-maybe better. Half a dozen years ago, there was hardly a platoon of them in the whole U.S. Last week in Manhattan, 15,000 of them trooped to the fourth annual hi-fi roundup, known as the Audio Fair. Partsmakers and plain fans, they took over 116 rooms of the New Yorker Hotel, set up their wares and turned on the switches...