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...eight seasons, short, bespectacled Gil Dodds has been something of a track oddity. He usually knelt and prayed before each race. On trips, he often carried bread and honey sandwiches in a paper bag. His awkward running style - arms thrashing like windmills - outraged the copybook but set a world's indoor mile record of 4:06.4. Last week, just after his coach predicted that he would soon smash that record by as much as two seconds, Dodds said he was through with track forever - he had received the Call to begin full-time gospel work...
...week it seemed clear that the Nazi High Command intended to force a decision west of the Rhine, and specifically west of that stretch of the Rhine covering the Ruhr. The German gamble suited Generals Eisenhower and Bradley down to the ground: they both believed in the good old copybook maxim that it is more important to destroy the enemy than to capture ground...
...tweeds and business suits, gabardines and sports jackets, the men shuffled in. They stood with bowed heads as the chaplain prayed, listened to copybook homilies on justice, freedom, democracy. With each installment they received a memento: with justice, a red poppy and a copy of the U.S. Constitution; with freedom, a tiny flag; with democracy, the bronze Legion emblem. They raised their right arms-all except the veteran who had left his on Guadalcanal-to take the Legion oath. The commander spread his arms in a clerical gesture, intoned again: "Comrades, I welcome...
George Washington was the product of an age which believed that form was as important to the art of living as to the art of music or writing. In the Library of Congress lies the mouse-gnawed, tattered copybook in which the Father of His Country (then in his teens) scrawled no rules of etiquette. Putnam has republished Washington's book of etiquette this week under its original title...
...national hero), and Gary Cooper plays it with likable restraint. The film is somewhat overlong, repetitive, undramatic, but the facts stick reasonably close to Gehrig's life. The tone is entirely faithful. Gehrig had a stubborn vigor, a fine sense of sportsmanship, an honest belief in the copybook maxims. Cinemactor Cooper manages to suggest these qualities by being his shy, loping, American self. Cooper's right-handedness faced Hollywood with an appalling problem (Gehrig was a lefty). It was solved by having Cooper bowl, punch a bag, throw pebbles, rocks, finally a baseball, lefthanded. Batting came easier; Outdoorsman...