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...evening. His suaveness and natural ability were so certain that he finally had five of the more astute people there convinced of his pure Southern ancestry and has been taking all drawling calls for Mid'n Lee ever since. All the credit for the success must go to conscientious Bob Foley who at last reports didn't want his name mentioned above a whisper in this regard and who by now is in an excellent position to recommend the effectiveness of personal advertisements in this newspaper...
Encouraged by the resounding success of the Army's appeal for needed inventions (TiME, Sept. 6, 1943), the Navy last week authorized the National Inventors Council to publish a list of 25 naval needs. Some of them: ¶A shockproof, non-parachute aerial delivery container, cheap enough to be thrown away after one drop. A light to mark beaches, which will work on light weight rechargeable batteries, be visible from 5,000 yards at sea. ¶ A method of welding light-gauge aluminum, "of particular importance since aluminum lifeboats and rafts are currently of riveted construction due to lack...
...height of his success, Harris disparaged it by quoting Critic Percy Hammond's dictum that "the theater is the shell game of the arts." But self-disparagement is not his outstanding trait...
...success of Army's courtmen, unbeaten in 26 games since February 1943, hinges on peak physical shape to go with their maximum-sized home court (eight feet longer than Madison Square Garden's). Fast-finishing Army last week whirled by Pittsburgh (71-to-51), then dumped Rochester (79-to-42). Their captain (and football halfback), Dale Hall, leading scorer in the East last season, has flicked in no less than 142 points in ten games, to boost his team's scoring average to 60.9 against their opponents...
Triumph of a Personality. Andrew Jackson's career as a general lasted only 18 months. His success was more one of personality than of military skill. Irascible and impatient, he won his soldiers' admiration by a steady display of fire and courage. He did not hesitate to call his superiors in the War Department "intermeddling pimps and spies." His emergence as a popular hero was the result less of tactical victories over the British, Spanish and Indians than of his highhanded triumphs over entrenched officialdom and political chicanery...