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...called it a "grand shambles of an experiment," remarked that it unquestionably accomplished "the greatest good for the greatest number." Foot-&-mouth disease has scourged Europe for centuries; in the U.S. it is now nonexistent, thanks to John Mohler, who rocked comfortably on his Washington porch this week, unmedaled, unsung and content...
...Coastal Command airmen, whose patrols are usually long, monotonous and unsung grinds, the battle was both a relief and a triumph. In four days, Coastal Command planes attacked 19 times, dropped hundreds of depth charges. One Liberator captain saw six submarines, attacked three within an hour. Another saw eight, attacked five in two days...
...young Yardlings who formed the society on March 6, 1808 "for their mutual improvement in instrumental music." But the gigantic number of six was not to be the steady diet of the society which, in the forlorn year of 1832, dropped to a single member, a faithful and unsung flutist, who managed to graduate from the University, practice, and keep enough of the Society's records intact to preserve its title of being the oldest orchestra in the United States...
...Captain Macauley has no greater admiration than TIME for the courage of those who nowadays set out to serve their country in the Merchant Marine. Their dangers and their hardships are all the more notable because largely unsung. The fact that (begging the Captain's pardon) the trainees do jokingly greet one another as "slacker," "sucker" and "profiteer" is, so far as TIME is concerned, not evidence of their seeking a refuge from danger but of their good tough morale. In so far as the story in question gave any other impression, it was a very bad story indeed...
...General Maximum Price Regulation, unhonored & unsung. It pegged prices to March or other specified levels, but in its seven months got hopelessly bogged down in new costs and schedules, a dozen individual price regulations and a mess of confusing explanations...