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Wrong Type. In Ann Arbor, Mich., a Mrs. Hunt and a Mrs. Peck applied for jobs at the University of Michigan Personnel Office, were both turned down flat because they had flunked the preliminary typing test...
Major General Manton S. Eddy, who takes a fatherly interest in his men, found time to wonder. Interested by a TIME report (Feb. 26) on how wives back home were meeting the test of war, General Eddy suggested taking a poll of officers and men in his XII Corps, which is part of Patton's Third Army...
Conflicts of interest and method in Europe had strained Big Three relations from the start. In the end, the deepest conflict, the determining test of those relations, and of the postwar security system founded on them, may come not in Europe but in Asia...
...Test to Come. Brother officers, in moments of highly confidential shoptalk, have been known to accuse Buckner of possessing too much surface brilliance- a damning indictment in the Army. Much of that criticism may well have stemmed from subconscious envy of Buckner's first-rate vocabulary, which shines with added luster against the background of a traditionally inarticulate profession. His standing with the Army's top leaders is attested by the fact that they have entrusted an army to his command at this stage of the war, when there is no lack of good generals with recent battle...
There were other signs of coming peace. On a Midlands country road, gaffers gaped at shiny new cars under test for postwar motorists. In a Warwickshire ammunition-box factory, civilian gas stoves began coming off the assembly lines at the rate of 100 a week. The Government's new prefabricated houses were mushrooming all over bombed Britain...