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...important, but I changed my mind after we toured the Army posts in Alaska." Like Al Jolson before him, he declared the boys up there had taken the zest out of him for entertaining civilians. Last week they were backed up by Bob Hope, the hardest-traveling Army-camp trooper of them all. The Aleutian circuit, he declared, comprised the greatest audience in the world. Back home, both Bergen and Hope were geysers of zestful anecdote in proof of their claim...
...farmers are not solely to blame. Members of the House and Senate know well that the lobby of the agricultural aristocrats is small, but they have nevertheless followed the parity line with the blind allegiance of a Storm Trooper to Mein Kampf. Congress has turned over the job of drafting policy to a group of professional lobbyists. If the bill passes the Senate as speedily as it went through the House of Representatives, the President can only veto it and issue the necessary decrees to control prices under his powers as Commander in Chief...
...Caucasian border; General Kiazim Orbay brought up seven Turkish divisions. They were probably there more for effect than for fighting, although the Turkish Government has sworn to battle any invader. The battle for the Turkish gates to the Middle East will be won or lost before an enemy trooper crosses the Turkish border. That battle is being fought in Egypt and the Caucasus...
...summer, the Army's mountain trooper sheds his skis and white suit-and his glamor. Then he looks like any other soldier except for a cocky ski cap, sole reminder of the days when he whooshed down slopes and tramped the peaks on snowshoes. Last week, somewhere in the West, he plodded up a narrow mountain path, holding the bridle of an opinionated mule. The view he saw was mostly the rump of the mule ahead; the sounds he heard were the clip-clip-clop of mule hoofs, labored breathing, an occasional heavy stumble over stone...
...Meets Mule. To many a mountain soldier, spring with its mules was a comedown. When trooper met mule, man & beast were mutually suspicious. The Army began a glamorizing campaign, argued that mules were smarter, surer-footed and more playful than horses, hung a sign: "Through These Portals Pass the Most Beautiful Mules in the World" (see cut, p. 62). Result: many a ski trooper volunteered to work with the animals, now thinks that mules as well as skis have their points...