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Theirs was the strangest battlefront in the world. Six months ago, when the Japs crossed the Salween River on their drive up the Burma Road, crack units of China's Army rushed in and drove the Japs back across the river, then took up a 200-mile-long position on the Salween's east bank. In the terrible summer heat and torrential rains of the pestilential country, they settled down to a nightmare existence...
...life is "any man's guess." But eventually he gave up his Legation post, returned to Manhattan to found the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Author Steele tells the story of Bergh's fanatical humanitarianism in ample detail, successfully resurrects one of the strangest 19th-Century Americans...
Dartmouth will field the strangest crew to hit the Charles in a long time. Completely unrecognized by the Hanover authorities, the crew has made the trip on their own, and are banking in friends' homes. Although the men are green, what they back in experience will no doubt be made up for a fight...
...this staff-aptly self-named the "Human Guinea Pig Club"-is served the Army's strangest noon mess (every day except Sunday). They may get anything from tomato bread and soybean sausages to eleven-year-old beef. Usually the fare is good, sometimes it is gagging; but good or bad, it is never just ration spinach and to hell with it. Due to these luncheon tests and the field trials a number of changes in Ration K have been made since it was first stowed in a knapsack late last year. Recent innovations: cheese for meat in the supper...
...Strangest was the Government's procedure from beginning to end. Ordinarily no very conclusive evidence is needed to secure an indictment. If the Government's case was so weak that an indictment was not likely, why had it raised the issue? Why had it publicized its intention by an advance announcement (TIME, Aug. 17)? Why had former Attorney General Mitchell, who conducted the investigation with scrupulous fairness, allowed Maloney and Johnston the unusual privilege of appearing to make a defense? If the Government was leaning over backwards to be fair to an anti-Administration paper...