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...University of Wisconsin, worked on newspapers in the North, blue-eyed, 42-year-old Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is pure Southerner in her literary career. Both her novels (South Moon Under, Golden Apples) and her short stories have dealt with the poor whites who live in the Florida scrub where she and her journalist husband went to live...
...state of complete disorganization such elementary progress was revolutionary. The armies or bandit hordes of Chinese Communists who tried to harass Nanking from the hinterland were turned by Generalissimo Chiang into an excuse for not fighting the Japanese. He used them as a football coach uses a scrub team to train the regular army of New China-the first Chinese War Machine, complete with European artillery, German military advisers, U. S. and Italian war planes...
...belief, however, that a game of scrub football, a fight-talk, and a square meal are sufficient to make an unruly boy into a useful citizen is wide of the mark. Intelligent leadership by the Harvard man comes first. Example, psychology, religion are but a few approaches to consider in this extremely difficult problem. It is a challenge to the so-called "insulated" student...
...read about your story in TIME and like it very much. And we would like to join your expedition. We are capable of doing the work on a ship for instance we can run errands, shine shoes, scrub decks, we have very sharp eyes, we will have them tested, wash and wipe dishes, and can keep our eyes open -till midnight. We are not scared of anything. We are faithful till the last moment and we are good digers, we can row a boat. We are 9 years...
...Ernest Hemingway, who boasts that he sharply distinguishes in his own mind between Novelist Hemingway (gruesome, gory, hyper-cynical) and Journalist Hemingway (objective, conscientious and in good taste), were struck by his description of signs of Italian valor on the battlefield of "little Caporetto" or Brihuega last week. "The scrub oak woods," cabled Journalist Hemingway, "are still full of Italian dead that burial squads have not yet reached. Tank tracks lead to where they died, not as cowards but defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they still lie. The track...