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...horrors last week. A U.S. Army band (the 418th Army Air Forces Band from the Technical School at Yale) had suddenly, and disconcertingly, got rhythm. When it swung down the line blaring such hallowed items as John Philip Sousa's Stars & Stripes Forever in jive tempo, sober listeners began to wonder what U.S. brass-band music was coming to. Obviously, there was an Afro-Saxon in the woodpile...
...combat equipment they carry." What made these predictions news this week was their author: not Major de Seversky, writing for the aviation press, but General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, in a special article for Army Ordnance, one of the most sober-sided of military publications...
...hopeful than the indictment of U.S. civilization Stearns had edited in his youth. As a symbol of the "exile" period in American literature, Stearns had only literary interest. But the pattern of denial and affirmation that he wove into his life-the rejection of American values and then a sober re-examination of them-was part of the social pattern of his time...
...money home for the purchase of war bonds and to guarantee a secure future when they do return. In fact, the old cry that war ruins men is a lot of bunk as far as I have been able to observe. I believe that the soldiers here are more sober, thriftier, and go to church more than an equal number of civilians do. If a man comes through combat without physical harm I believe that he will be a much better man than he was before the Army service; he will be better able to cope with the problems that...
...contemporaries remember him as a slender, dark, fiery-eyed youngster who rode beautifully, could do anything with his hands and did nothing with his mind. Also he stuttered. Some of his classmates admired his dash. Others, of the sober sort, considered him thoroughly worthless. They made a play on his name: Tear-around-the-mess-hall Allen...