Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already off on new ways of spending some of the $168 million he inherited from his storekeeping grandfather. His most ambitious postwar project: a mass-circulation magazine, described by its friends as a kind of New-Dealing Saturday Evening Post or Collier's. Field already has the Saturday Review of Literature's Editor Norman Cousins at work pasting up dummies. So far, says Cousins, everything "is purely exploratory. We are not trying to hide a new baby. If it comes along it will be plenty visible-as is generally the case." Passes have already been made at several...
This one-his sixth since taking office-turned out to be a long (8,000 words) review of the war and a restatement of reconversion policies. It was notable chiefly for a stern warning to Japan that unconditional surrender is, and will remain, the firm U.S. policy. Said the President: the U.S. will double its forces now in the Pacific, will hurl against Japan an army greater than the 3,000,000-man force which helped crush the Wehnnacht. Significantly, next day brought word that famed, fighting Admiral "Bull" Halsey was back in the Pacific with his redoubtable Third Fleet...
...Pilsen, smartly polished troops of our 2nd Infantry staged a review in the ancient city square for visiting Red dignitaries and soldiers who received American combat medals. Afterwards Reds and doughs with arms about one another's shoulders careened in jeeps through the Pilsen streets...
...judge advocate, a U.S. major, lectured the accused on the Ten Commandments, the laws of decency, German regulations on treatment of prisoners, and the Hague Convention. Pending review by higher authorities, the commission withheld its verdict. At trial's end, the German lawyer leaned toward his three charges and whispered...
...booming command, some 4,800 white-gloved hands snapped 2,400 rifles to "present arms." Front & center, to the strains of Alma Mater, marched the 853 members of the class of 1945, the largest in West Point history. Then the Corps, company by company, wheeled and passed in review, rank on rigid rank saluting with eyes right, and being saluted in turn by doffed hats, until the last line vanished back through the sallyports...