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...real impact of training men in the shortest time will be felt by the speicalized training schools located here. The ASTP and ASTR, which have just completed an end-of-term vacation, will only get Christmas Day off. The NTS (Communications) will also get the day off. At the Naval Supply Corps School the officers will be given the weekend...
...Chicago's new subway is not the world's shortest. Shorter: Budapest, Madrid, Osaka...
From captured Sangro Ridge the Eighth ground on. By week's end they had advanced ten miles, were 14 miles from Pescara, where the shortest transpeninsular roads cut westward through the Apennines toward Rome. But the Germans were by no means routed along the Adriatic. They had nasty machine-gun nests on every roadside slope up to Pescara. They posted expendables in every village. They counterattacked; at one place, Orsogna, they turned back an Eighth spearhead...
...Billy Rose) turns the opera that Sir Thomas Beecham once called "the sturdiest oak in the operatic forest" into the most brilliant show on Broadway. If Bizet's Carmen and the all-Negro Carmen Jones live, artistically, on different sides of the railroad tracks, they nevertheless represent the shortest distance between one exciting kind of job and another. Drastic changes have been made. Carmen has been retired in a kiln, not warmed over in an oven. There is no capricious tinkering for tinkering's sake. Respectfulness everywhere chaperones audacity...
Last April, with much hoopla, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly gave the voters a preliminary peek at the new Chicago subway. Last week, six months later, the first "official" train went through. The longest-promised (50 years), costliest ($6,938,000 per mile), shortest (4.9 miles) subway in the world was now open for business...