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...developed a grudging respect for him. When he led his formation through the flak, "ordered a 360° turn, made the run all over again, bombed the target with great success, and lost one-third of his crews," he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. When Willie Turk, toughest and touchiest of the pilots, talked out of turn, Harris knocked him out with one punch...
...Gets Out? The touchiest point in U.S.-Russian relations was the Far East-and well the Russians knew it. Because they did not want a showdown with the U.S., the Russians had behaved with relative restraint in the delicate negotiations between the Chinese National Government and the Chinese Communist Party. Now they vastly complicated those negotiations by postponing the Red Army's withdrawal from Manchuria and by asking for further concessions in the richest industrial area of the Far Eastern mainland. Not only had they failed to withdraw on Feb. 1, as they had promised, but there were reports...
After V-J day, one of the biggest, hardest, touchiest jobs in the U.S. will be boss of the Veterans Administration. What V.A. does, and how it does it, will directly concern one out of every three U.S. families...
...orchestra waiting for them. White-collar workers fill a third of the chairs, but are by no means the top instrumentalists. A former Metropolitan Opera French horn player operates a lathe; the concertmaster (once a hot fiddler for Kate Smith) runs a milling machine. One of the touchiest problems faced by the coldly democratic organization was a none-too-musical Sperry executive who insisted on playing second violin...
With all the value that is being put today on avoiding escapism in the theatre, it seems a shame to condemn a drama which aims ostensibly to treat one of the touchiest of all real topics--death in war. But until some honest playwright can break away from fantastic treatment and false emotionality--to say nothing of avoiding poor casts and stupid dialogue--the stage might just as well stick to musicals and farces...