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...students I came across in 45 years of teaching who seemed to be born mature and adequate to any situation." The 1925 high school yearbook records that 16-year-old Dean ("Rusty") Rusk was president of the senior class, colonel of the school R.O.T.C. regiment, president of the Hi-Y Club, a member of the honor society, the debating council and the track squad, associate editor of the school newspaper-and editor of the yearbook. It did not record that he had started up a class in Greek along...
...government had massed 30,000 police and soldiers in Algiers to handle rioting by European mobs; they could not handle the' outpouring of Moslems. On Sunday afternoon, a paratroop regiment arrived from the back country, where it had been battling the rebel F.L.N. Rushed to the Moslem quarter of Belcourt, the paratroops took one look at the flag-waving Moslems and then advanced, firing submachine guns from the hip. Explained the paratroop colonel: "My men have been fighting the rebels in the Aurés Mountains. They are amazed to come up against the very same rebel flag...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 (London Symphony, under Sir Malcolm Sargent; Everest). A first stereo recording of one of the most ebullient, eccentric and delightful of Shostakovich's works. When the composer's orchestra-raucous, slapdash and happy-moves into battle, the effect is of a regiment under fluttering pennons posting to the attack...
...town of Castiglione, 25 miles from Algiers, a hundred junior officers met in secret to discuss how they could best save the idea of "Algérie Francaise." The army high command, which last January promised to keep pro-ultra paratroopers out of Algiers last week moved a paratroop regiment into the city for "rest after operations...
...marriage to Isobel Tolland except that she had a miscarriage? How will "Chips" Lovell get on with Priscilla Tolland? The addicted reader can hardly wait. Meanwhile it would seem to be a safe bet that Narrator Nick Jenkins will be commissioned, like Author Powell, in a posh regiment (Powell was an officer, first in the Welch Regiment, then in intelligence), and will later continue, in London and in the vanishing English countryside, Powell's own course as gentleman of letters...