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...From the purely physical standpoint the Pacific campaigns have been infinitely worse for the private soldier. There he's had to live in the heat and filth of the jungle, worrying about malaria and the fact that a scratch may develop into a tropical ulcer...
...Peleliu is incomparably worse than Guam in its bloodiness, terror, climate and the incomprehensible tenacity of the Japs. For sheer brutality and fatigue, I think it surpasses anything yet seen in the Pacific, certainly from the standpoint of numbers of troops involved and the time taken to make the island secure...
...Company 1, Dick Oster expertly swept the class into the future of air travel and kept it there while George Ottum, Jim Seale, and Sam Nikkel told us of daily transcontinental flights to the West--which was all very gay but rather impractical from a profit and loss standpoint...
Promptly the Vatican, which rarely affirms or denies, issued a statement which neither affirmed nor denied: "Nothing is known about the reports . . . of coordinated action between Moscow and the Vatican." Ideological and spiritual differences were irreconcilable, but "it is not impossible to imagine from the practical standpoint that Stalin might at any moment take up a surprise position before which the Vatican must be prepared...
Judged from an aesthetic standpoint (with due apologies to Mr. Copland for using that word here) the band is not altogether unbearable. Once in a while, if you listen patiently, you can dissect from the wild conglomeration of over-arrangements an interesting tenor chorus or a refreshing break by a trumpet or trombone. In fact most of the solos are really worthwhile in comparison to the greater portion of the music heard north of 125th St. So if you're tired of Frank- the Radcliffe-conception-of-virility-Sinatra and your soul cries our for some musical satisfaction, fall...