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...heroine says "mummy" and "tummy" and uses the maternal we. Other characters greet the reader with "We're doing the Saturday Review puzzle." All the men smoke pipes, which they rub against their cheeks or tap on their knees while they talk. Often they talk less like human beings than like editorials in a liberal weekly. Says Theo's lover: "We sit here in America, and across the ocean we see death and denial enmeshing a great people. For there's no use now imagining that Hitler is a temporary aberration. How long can it last...
...Last Night in the Old Home: a mixture of genuine and forced heartbreak which contains this line, spoken by a vapid, bitchy daughter: "That's the difficulty . . . there's nothing much they can do. Oh, mother is trying to rub out the places where we all used to be measured against the door...
Sirs: General Marshall (TIME, July 14) is concerned with the possibility of having to rub out what the Army has accomplished in training draftees...
...spends a year in the compulsory Labor Service, learning that it won't hurt his hands to use them for hard work, won't hurt his elbows to rub them against those of the lowliest Germans. Finally he is ready to join the Army as an officer-candidate...
George Marshall talked bluntly, as a soldier should. What he had to say about extending the one-year draft period could be boiled down to a terrifyingly simple conclusion: Unless the citizen soldiers now in the Army are kept there, the U.S. will have to rub out what it has done and start over again. For, in expanding the field Army from some 210,000 regulars (Sept. 1, 1939) to 1,448,500 (last week), the staff has had to spread its three-year professionals perilously thin. Only two divisions (First and Third) are now made up exclusively of three...