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This week, as in 1917, high on Army's headache list is a shortage of good corporals, sergeants and second lieutenants, without which Army's whopping training program may well founder. To get noncoms and shavetails in quantity, Army bosses may well have to junk some tenets of...
In the car just ahead was the "squirrel cage"-the staff of experts and writers whose job was to dig up facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others...
When André Demaison treats of human beings, he is merely a cultivated, steel-hard French Colonial businessman who seems to be unable to write badly. When he describes a primeval, half-witted stowaway he begins to warm up. When he writes of beasts and birds and reptiles, he is...
Heir to the blood of the fathers is Meier Borsht, tradesman, the vicissitudes of whose strong-witted life follow the pattern of his dark-bearded ancestors, whose adventures and generations Robert Neumann relates with prodigal invention.
"Prinney," as the Prince was called, had a spoiled passion for his secret wife, Maria Fitzherbert (once, when near death from nerves, hangovers and bloodletting, he wrote a soulful will in her favor), and a funning relationship with catty Lady Jersey. It amused Lady Jersey to put Epsom salts in...