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...morning at Fort Sill he stuffed a rolled-up copy of TIME into his pants pocket and pulled his fatigue jacket down to hide it. Then he marched out on the parade ground to drill with his platoon. The rigid schedule of basic training left little time for his customary cover-to-cover reading of TIME. So he planned to read during the Army's traditional ten-minute breaks...
...plans left out his company commander's practiced eyes. Out to inspect the close-order drill class, Captain W. A. ("I'm a bug on proper uniform") Gorman quickly spied the odd bulge bobbing under Smith's jacket. He stopped the platoon and commanded the recruit to unveil the unmilitary mystery. When Gorman, also a steady TIME-reader, saw the reason for the bulge, he ordered Smith to "share his knowledge" with the platoon by reading aloud while marching...
...Platoon Leaders Class...
...General Ridgway, the Eighth Army commander. No doubt this, and the toll of enemy casualties, comforted the G.I.s-if anything could comfort them in the dreadful mountain winter. In a grim dispatch describing their ordeals in the "awful, bitter, uncompromising, relentless cold," Scripps-Howard Reporter Jim Lucas quoted a mortar platoon lieutenant addressing a handful of green replacements...
Like other recent war films (Battleground, Sands of Iwo Jima), Halls of Montezuma concentrates on a single platoon, this time headed by an ex-schoolteacher (Richard Widmark) who is harried by battle-induced migraine. Unlike the others, Halls gives its characters some dimension and illusion of freshness. The characterizations of Lieut. Widmark and two insecure enlisted men (Richard Hylton, Skip Homeier), for example, are bolstered by short flashbacks to civilian life. Scripter Michael Blankfort also goes beyond lip service to the standard war-is-hell theme; his marines (including Walter Palance, Karl Maiden, Bert Freed and Richard Boone) grimly prove...