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Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressed the "grave concern" of the U.S. Government, and the State Department finally wrung from the Czech foreign office a promise that U.S. officials could interview the imprisoned soldiers. A hardbitten old sergeant from the pair's old outfit, the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, voiced his own position more succinctly. Said he: "If them lunkheads is spies, I'm Mata Hari...
...Manhattan last week, Pancho experimented with something new. He played tennis on the slick, wooden floor of the 7th Regiment Armory for the National Indoor Championship. Neither the strange surface nor the deceptive lighting unsettled him; he breezed easily through the early rounds. What annoyed him was the fact that he couldn't get enough sleep. "It isn't the tennis matches," he explained carefully, "just New York. It keeps me awake...
Over the whole regiment scene last week sat Branch Rickey himself. He and his coaches were prepared to hear some scoffing. In fact, Rickeyman Fresco Thompson, onetime Dodger infielder and now assistant director of the Dodgers minor league operations, himself made the crack that traditionalists had been groping for. "Next year," said Thompson, "we're putting in three mechanical batters. Then we'll be able to leave the players at home...
...Battalion, Wessex Regiment, British Expeditionary Force, was assembled in England in January 1944 and destroyed in Normandy six months later. From the City, from the Plough is the chronicle of its infantrymen's life & death. Published last year in Britain, the book was both a bestseller and a critical success. Some reviewers described it as the All Quiet of World War II; others were reminded of Journey's End. Critic V. S. Pritchett, one of Britain's best, called it simply "the only war book that has conveyed any sense of reality to me." Published...
...featured with "Rogues Regiment" is a Hollywood heartwarmer entitled "Big city." It features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...