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...Donald Eldredge '43, over a needle lost while Gammer is mending the breeches of her servant Hodge, Dan Shook '44. Diccon, Howard Oedel '43, the villain who keeps the quarrel going, is foiled by Master Bayly, Charles Breuning '42, who finds the needle in a surprise ending after Dr. Rat, William Musgrave '42, has failed...
...sincerely believe that we will be able to win our war and to win our peace as well. We feel that Japan's militarists are fighting the fight of a cornered rat, and that destruction awaits them. We can see that our affair in the Pacific is but one part of the struggle that is going on at the same time in the Atlantic, over England, in Africa, in Russia, and among the conquered peoples, and we know that we must do our part on all the fronts. We are confident that in the end, whenever that...
...mind the selection of stories for this issue even errs in the direction of material too clearly viewed and soberly treated. Robert Clurman develops skillfully a conventional genre comedy of a Mexican priest's misadventure with a pattern of simple reversal for its form. Bowden Broadwater's "A Rat in Her Arras," in the vein of "The Little Foxes," is a series, but not a climax, of frustrated family plottings. Although long, the story has more complications than it can particularize, and is somewhat burdened by direct exposition. Both Mr. Broadwater and Mr. Clurman, however, can realize the words...
...coastwise towing. But like their seagoing ancestors, they will save steel. Each barge requires only one-sixth as much steel as a similar-sized steel ship. Furthermore, concrete barges 1) cost about 50% less than steel vessels, 2) take 60-70% less time to build, 3) are fireproof, rat-proof, rot-proof. Biggest disadvantage is that they weigh more than steel ships, carry less cargo...
From such signs as these any citizen could well conclude that Ordnance was doing a bang-up job. Yet in the rat-runs of official Washington he could hear a different, an almost contradictory story-that Ordnance, bumbling, inefficient, stupid, had botched its job, is headed for an inevitable shakeup...