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Older cultures had their feeder roots deep in the soil. This meant more than the tactile love that can tell the soil's fertility and tilth from a little dirt crumbled be tween two fingers. It meant the abiding shadowy love of the soil because of the generations who have gone into it and populate it. For culture of this kind U. S. history was too short...
...explanation of the success of Germany's modern war machine - and what could be done about it. Said the U. S. Army's Assistant Chief of Staff (G2 - Intelligence) and son of the late, great Nelson A. Miles: "In all military history, the balance be tween the defense and the offense has been tilting first one way and then the other...
...Nazi scythe swept westward be tween Sedan and Namur it threatened to cut the supply and communication lines to Paris of the Belgians, British and French on the Plain of Flanders, threatened to cut them off from France. One day having fought and held Louvain against Nazi attacks, the British next day turned and retired with their Belgian allies. They also withdrew from Brussels, from Antwerp...
...former crew members of the scuttled German liner Columbus, who, last week, were still dawdling deliciously on San Francisco's Angel Island: exercising, playing games, eating three bulky U. S. meals per day, fishing for pogies & perch off Angel Island stringers and smoking the catch for 'tween-meal tidbits, going to one movie a week as guests of the U. S. Army across the island at Fort McDowell. Now that they might not travel in Japanese ships, as planned, the Columbus' crew's stay appeared extended indefinitely, though Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins said...
Tall, dashing John Anderson (Journal & American) is Broadway's supreme critic of bad plays, with a great gift for wise cracking down on them. ("[Jeremiah] may be entered ... as prophet and loss"; "Twenty years is a long time, except be tween wars.") Anderson was No. 1 Hellza-poppin-hater. Though murderous with fanciness and fake, he is sometimes too clever and cynical at the expense of a serious play...