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...cabled last week: "The secret of Douglas' success in dealing with Britons is that he remains thoroughly American, yet manages to be the complete antithesis of the grotesque caricature so many Britons have built up of the typical American: loudmouthed, loud-suited and inclined to give a condescending slap on the aching British back...
...British officials were treated with an irony amounting to loathing, has evidently been on his mind. He writes, in his foreword: "Perhaps I have been lucky in the people I have known and the visitors who write books after a six months' stay have been unlucky." This mild slap...
...divided for & against the program; by last week they had switched to 90% in favor. He noted an even more significant point: the average weight of butchered hogs had dropped from 276 lbs. to 248 lbs.* His next major target was the meat packers. One possibility: asking packers to slap an embargo on overstuffed hogs and cattle (for an estimated saving of 60 million bushels of grain a year...
Proud of His Slap. General Patton's boasting is more straightforward. In a final chapter called Earning My Pay, he cites 34 instances during his career when "my personal intervention had some value." Among them he includes the notorious slapping incident in Sicily. Writes Patton: ". . . Had other officers had the courage to do likewise, the shameful use of 'battle fatigue' as an excuse for cowardice would have been infinitely reduced...
...this time, you probably know the yarn of the circus bear who ran away and discovered a Law of the Wild that Jack London must have missed: bears make love with a slap. Bongo's understanding of bearish tactics grows through many rounds of grizzly fistienffs, and he finally learns that to court his love, he must make with a right to her muzzle. Add some good tunes to his slaps, and the result is tops. Clumping about in a Northwoods that would make a lumberman's mouth water, Bonge and the bears paw one another sufficiently to reach anybody...