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...those suited for advanced work. Only those selected need attend Summer School, and scholarships similar to those planned for men training for other branches of the armed forces can be provided. The 135 surplus Mil Sci I students would then be relieved of a course which will be worthless to them, and those of the remaining seventy in need can be released from a heavy financial burden...
...fact that "Tobacco Road" is now running for its eighth year does little credit to the taste of the theater-going public, for during those eight years the play has steadily lost its force and meaning until in its last two performances in Boston it has become a worthless burlesque. The actors, led by John Barton as Jeeter, have lost all understanding of their play and have adopted the technique of the Old Howard comedians. The play is no longer shocking through its representation of the squalid conditions of the southern share cropper, as the message is lost...
...variety in the future by sending out working drawings of 30 or 40 other types. And the Navy does not expect to accept all the models sent in, figures on having to reject about 20% out of the first few thousand models. To keep itself from being flooded with worthless models, the Navy will work through local authorities, is likely at first to confine model making to school,under direct supervision. All models will be painted black, since recognition experience is supposed to come through knowledge of design and outline of planes, not through colors or insignia...
...Africa. Livestock, dried vegetables and fruits went the same way. The Germans fried Greek potatoes in Greek fat and shipped them, cooked, back to Germany. The Nazi Army of Occupation, during the two months it was in command, bought up all stocks of clothes with bundles of their worthless "occupation marks." By report, the only relief the Axis has given to Greece has been 10,000 tons of grain which Italy sent from her own slim stores-secretly so that underfed Italians should not protest...
This other Dona (whom thousands of Miss du Maurier's readers know as "the real me,") knew that "life need not be bitter, nor worthless, nor bounded by a narrow casement, but could be limitless, infinite-that it meant suffering, and love, and danger, and sweetness, and more than this even, much more." How much more, Miss du Maurier wisely neglects to say; but she does bring on, as Dona's lover, the one sort of man who could conceivably supply it: a Frenchman (They Understand Love). He is a philosophical pirate, as tired of the world...