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...first warm-up exercises (to teach initiative and coordination), units lost contact so badly that Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, Chief Umpire, cracked: "It would have cost $10 to send a postcard from one unit to the other end." But the troops had plenty of initiative and their infiltration tactics would have dizzied a Jap: one small contingent got "shot" by its own side's machine guns...
...alleviate this situation each House Master is arranging to extend the capacity of the necessary number of rooms. Letters now being sent out ask the student to return a postcard stating how long he expects to retain his suite...
Tourists flocking this week to Arkansas' rolling, postcard-pretty Ouachita forests found a brave new Arkansas: aggressive, full of vinegar. Its citizens spoke right up, dead sure that Arkansas was not the worst State but the best. Said cocky Governor Homer M. Adkins: "Arkansans are now awake to the vast wealth and attractiveness of their State." Said reformed Renegade Bob Burns: "Now take my Uncle Doug. He used to walk barefoot on a barbed-wire fence with a wildcat under each arm. You know Doug-Douglas MacArthur...
Already many of the activities under the direction of the Committee are under way, and each person who signed up for one is being notified by postcard when and where he can get started...
Steel-helmeted, fortified with tommy guns and flasks of vin ordinaire, landing parties took over the village in less than half an hour. Eleven brass-buttoned, picture-postcard gendarmes shrugged their shoulders, helped round up their superior officers. Most administrative officers were told to stay at their posts, but suave Parisian Baron Gilbert de Bournat, Administrator, was called to account before the flotilla's commandant, Vice Admiral Emile Henri Muselier, Commander of the Free French naval forces...