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Maxwell Anderson's new play, "The Eve of St. Mark," resolutely digs into the fundamental problems this war poses for everyone, particularly for the generation which must fight. Presenting the war with powerful directness, the play gives it meaning for each individual. A pleasant relief from the "all out" slush with which some business men, women's clubs, and just plain slackers rationalize their existence, it shows plainly that this "global" struggle is still a war in which young men chiefly die, and young women chiefly weep...
...break, the mighty Peace River, the Sikanni Chief, the Buckinghorse, the Fort Nelson would be crackling torrents. There were never enough trucks to move up the stuff. Farmers, garagemen, merchants, traders piled in with their own vehicles. All the short days and long nights the trucks mired down in slush, were dug out, pushed...
...been engineering 26 years for the Army. But his biggest job began the day he stepped from the train at Dawson Creek on to the crunchy snow to start surveying the route. His was the big worry when scores of cats were bogged down in the slush, and the rains seemed never to stop. Impatient, Hoge steamboated up and down the road in Bush Pilot Les Cook's seaplane, watched the men slogging it through. He said little, eyeing the tremendous job, but every mucker and cat driver knew the general was on the job. "A tough...
...agreed with Adolf Hitler-within three months the Nazi armies would be in Moscow, and the Russian incident would be one with Norway, France and Greece. Even U.S. Communists shivered in their Russian boots, put less faith in Marshal Timoshenko, Voroshilov and Budenny than in Generals Winter, Mud and Slush. When the Germans bogged down, backsliding fellow travelers slid back, a statue to Lenin was unveiled in London, and nearly everybody sighed: The impossible has happened...
...Harvard and it may be Boston," says Bill Cunningham in yesterday's syndicated column to syncopated slush, "but it just ain't football as she's played and paid for and graded by the sports pages of Kansas City, Atlanta, South Bend, Chicago, Dallas, and Wounded Knee...