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...Whitey" McNair's plan will be detailed by an officer of whom the U.S. may hear a lot more before the war is over: young (46) Major General Mark Clark, a tall, well-knit infantry soldier who is the Ground Force Chief of Staff. Mark Clark is as dead serious about training soldiers as he was when an officer asked him what his chief interest had been at West Point. His answer: "Graduating and getting a commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Small Yankees | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...nationalistic a film as any which local screens have shown in recent years. Basing his story on the struggles of the heroic Russian cavalry against the invading Teutonic knights of the 13th century, Eisenstein has created a picture which is more enthusiastic than sound, more spectacular than it is well-knit...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/27/1941 | See Source »

...first-string attack lines up at present it forms a strong, well-knit offensive with sufficient individual talent and a good deal of co-operative team-work. Backed by such reserves as Art Neff, Ernie Staber, Fritz Kempner, and Howie Malloy it presents a formidable line...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/10/1941 | See Source »

During the summer of 1940 the Faculty organized its pro-aid members into a well-knit body known as American Defense-Harvard Group. The Group followed roughly the Conant Line, which at that time consisted of "all aid short of war now; all aid later if necessary." Faculty members spent last year speaking, writing and acting on behalf of Aid to Britain...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: War Couses Turbulent Two Years | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...TAXES - David Dodge -Macmillan ($2). A huge tax refund on a dead beer-baron's estate motivates the murder of an income-tax expert. The expert's pardner, who likes liquor, ladies and a good scrap, helps California police clean up a tricky case. Hard-hitting and well-knit - the "find" of the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in July, Aug. 4, 1941 | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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