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Americans did not invent the art of guerrilla war, but they were once very good at it. U.S. military history is studded with great guerrilla names-General Francis Marion ("the Swamp Fox"), who fought hit & run campaigns in the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution; Captain John Mosby, Confederate raider in Virginia and Maryland; General John Hunt Morgan of Alabama.* In World War I, when mass production and massed firepower became an overriding factor, Americans lost interest in the art of making much of little. In Korea, the U.S. is being forced to rediscover the lost...
Fuss & Feathers. Pogoland's characters are talking animals who live in the Okefenokee Swamp and call themselves "nature's screetures." Pogo himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns...
...water-skiers have held eight national tournaments. Last week, while most of the U.S. shivered, crowds lined the banks of Lake Eloise in Winter Haven, Fla. to watch the finals of the first international water ski tournament to be held in the U.S. They saw a U.S. team swamp the best from Belgium, France, Switzerland, England, Italy, Canada and Mexico...
...That Yale is a swamp of evil. Yale men drink, smoke, and go out with girls...
...Vermont hills about Ripton, the red fires of autumn smoldered on the swamp maples and sumac, crept inward from branch tips, inched downward into the valley where the river brawls through the gorge. From a slab-wood cabin with its back set firmly against the valley's shoulder, cooking his own meals and dependent on no man, 76-year-old Poet Robert Frost last week faced the world. It is the vantage point he likes best...