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...central purposes for its original formation in the summer of 1940, to acquaint the public with the menace of the Axis powers and the need for adequate national defense, has ceased to exist, American Defense, Harvard Group, is still carrying on a wide variety of activities with as much zeal as ever...
Ever since his return to the U.S. from his near-fatal Pacific mission, lean, tough Captain Eddie Rickenbacker has been making speeches which compared the spirit and fighting of U.S. soldiers in the South Pacific with the work and zeal of U.S. labor in the factories at home. In the blunt phrases of Captain Eddie-the archetype of the U.S. rugged individualist-U.S. labor has always come off a very poor second...
Every reviewer has his pet theories which he will defend against all comers to the bitter and unreasonable end, especially if they are lost causes. Haggin, for instance, in his zeal for the cause of Toscanini, wrote recently in the "Nation" that he found Koussevitsky's Beethoven and Brahms "impossible to listen to." For the most part, he is a very acute critic, perhaps the most acute, but he has an uncanny nose for the unpopular attitude. When Toscanini was at the height of his glory and powers back in '36, Haggin thought he was a pedantic Italian opera hack...
...photographers call "dicing"-flying as low as 100 feet over enemy targets for close-up pictures. Roosevelt has "diced" Tunisia, Sicily and Sardinia, and last week he was still trying to pile up more combat-flying time than any other man in his unit. One reason for his zeal: he knows that many men in the Army look with suspicion on "the President...
...match to the most inflammable of the placards, and then fled the scene while the blaze envelopped the board and charred the entry. Most violent reaction to this bit of sabotage came from the proctor, Frank "the fruit" Newman '42, who quite violently and properly resented the flaming zeal with which they were pressing revenge...