Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noon chow and a short session on the sack were over by 1 p.m. and the company was back at the tank part for two hours of what the cavalry armored men still call "stables." The tanks were carefully worked over, guns cleaned. Then there was a dull lecture on military courtesy, an hour of athletics before the evening meal. After dinner Monson and two buddies changed to Class A uniform (cotton shirt and Eisenhower jacket), went down to the orderly room to pick up passes...
...handlers gave him a soft diet of bran mash and hay, and nothing to do all day. Then gradually he was brought up to form with long jogs and short workouts. A fortnight ago, at Florida's Hialeah Park, the Big Train raced again. He won-by a few inches. Last week, with 130 Ibs. on his back,† the brown gelding did it again. Neither race was an important one, but they were impressive warm-ups for the winter's big two: the $50,000 Widener Handicap at Hialeah next week and the $100,000 Santa Anita...
Radar ballooned in wartime into a great industry-and then collapsed just as suddenly. Few peacetime uses were found for military radars: they were not much help in navigating commercial airplanes or merchant vessels. They were also too costly, too complicated, and practically useless at very short range...
Reckless Laughter. The men responsible for these two new books on Joyce do not share Connolly's disappointment. In the introduction to his portable Joyce (containing selections from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as well as Joyce's short stories, his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, his lyrics and his play, Exiles, all complete), Harvard's Professor Harry Levin wrote: "As we study them closely, we are less intimidated by their idiosyncrasies, and more impressed not only by the qualities they share with the great books of other ages, but by their vital concern...
...start of this term by the Cambridge branch of the Advocate trustees, proposed that the magazine move inward from its previous position on the literary fringes and attempt to grapple with various kinds of current problems. Watt said that there would still be room for two or three short stories in each issue, but that the accent would also fall on articles of national or international interest...