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Brown's report might startle smug civilians; it certainly came as no surprise to the Army's hard-pressed Special Services Division. With morale equipment, as with every other kind of Army equipment, the basic problem is a heartbreaking one: how to get it there. Considering the Army as a whole, U.S. forces are as well equipped for the fighting man's off-duty relaxation in rear areas as any army in history...
...wartime storms hit Harvard education, the extras will be jettisoned first. Already the pressure is on for the tutorial system, and the temporary duration remedies which were quietly adopted last year by the Faculty to carry it through the war point to its basic weaknesses. Course credit for tutorial now enables men to take it who otherwise could not, and it encourages more thorough work. It was a necessary step, for the war. But after the war the problem will remain of how to tighten and crisp tutorial, and make it for all students the stimulating experience it has been...
...translate, Saroyon's message of man's basic goodness to a medium such as the screen requires a delicate hand, because the idea is very apt to be overdone. Clarence Brown, producer director, and Howard Estabrook, who wrote the screen play, try very hard but they sometimes outdo the shaggy-haired eccentric in being sloppily sentimental. "The Human Comedy" is the story of a typically Saroyan family in the typically Saroyan town of Ithaca, California. There is Homer MacCauley, who pedals a bicycle for Postal Telegraph and learns about life (Saroyan life, that is) from veteran telegrapher Frank Morgan...
...basic experience in common with his Army which will give him, along with them, determination to do his job as well as possible: He started the Battle of France at the Saar Valley and ended it in the water of Dunkirk...
Last week Du Pont announced that two models of Mr. Burnham's folder, to fold three sizes of bandage, are now in mass production. With high industrial grandeur, the bulletin added that Lammot du Pont, chairman of the Board of Directors, applied the inventor's basic principle and developed a working model that has been adopted as standard by the Delaware Red Cross for folding the smallest size dressing...