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...keep feeling we are sitting on our front porch while the back stoop burns. If we really are facing a battle for our lives with 25 million Russians, 10 million Chinese, and no telling how many more, what are we doing talking about an army of 3½ million? . . . ¶Why can't each of us learn a fighting job right alongside his regular work? Train us in shifts; form a "revolving" army. Let every able-bodied man between 25 and 45, say, join a unit and train a full six weeks twice a year . . . Between times, we could...
...Lord of Creation." Matt Ridgway began his Army career informally some 45 years ago, when he used to shout a sentry's challenge to visitors from the porch of the family quarters at Fort Walla Walla, Wash. His father, Colonel Thomas Ridgway, was a Regular Army artilleryman who had served with an international contingent in China during the Boxer Rebellion...
April. In Montgomery, Ala., Marion D. Perry, kept awake by his neighbor's dogs, was fined $10 for sitting on his porch at night, howling back...
Light-o'-Love. In Milwaukee, Howard Clickner was arrested for repeatedly annoying his estranged girl friend by putting red lanterns on her front porch...
...Quite Horatio. Chrysler died in 1940, but not before Satevepost Writer Boyden Sparkes had taken down his story. Life of an American Workman is one of those personal-success books that has Made in U.S.A. stamped all over it. It has the casual, conversational tone of a front-porch chat and the fascination that clings to every true story about the boy who reached...