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...Munich, including well-rendered "architectural" pictures of Munich's Alter Hof (see cut) and of its National Theatre, a country house outside Munich. It all ended in August 1914. Hitler, a humble, alien lover of monarchical Germany, enlisted, not in the Austrian Army, but in the 16th Infantry Regiment of the King of Bavaria...
Only U. S. Naval Academy midshipman ever to win five "N-stars" for victories over Army, Fred ("Buzz") Berries of Louisville, Ky., took a re-examination in English, passed, graduated as No. 385½ in his class. Day before graduation, Midshipman Borries stepped before the regiment, received from Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers the Navy Athletic Association's sword as the Academy's outstanding athlete. Following graduation Ensign Borries had his epaulets pinned on, was presented with a big hug & kiss by "Gussie" Mae Hanley of Washington...
...happened, the annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...
...great deal more than its claim as expert muck-raking. It is a rattling good story, yielding precedence to no other war novel in its swift vividness of narrative and its sureness of character analysis. The action occupies less than three days in the collective life of a french regiment of the line and in the individual lives, presented in a counterpoint pattern, of a number of the members of the regiment, from privates to the division commander. The division commander lusts for a star of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, so he orders the exhausted regiment...
...boasted success vanishing, telephoned back to a supporting battery to shell the French trenches, drive the men forward. But the artillery officer refused, unless the general would put the order in writing-which he was not insane enough to do. In 35 minutes the hopeless attack was over. The regiment was ordered out of the line the same day, was put under arrest as soon as it was safely in the rear. For the regiment's alleged cowardice, the general ordered one man from each company shot...