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...realization of the danger of the crisis make this move away from the cavalier spirit that pervaded the campuses of 1917 both desirable and understandable. Training an army now is a highly technical process. The German Panzer division has replaced the Rough Riders of T.R. as the basic conception of an army. Panzer divisions can only be trained by the War Department. The inadequacy of college lectures in assisting draftees has been borne out by the lack of encouragement, in marked contrast with the last war, from the planners of our future Army and Navy...
...they should accept the operation of the draft in the normal course of events and not change their program at all. In any event, a compromise is useless. A superficial course of lectures will aid no one and merely serves to divert the University's attention from the basic problems of why the war is fought to the mechanical details of how it is fought...
NEWS AND NEW REALEASES: Via airmail from New York: Count Basic will disband his orchestra and join Benny Goodman unless he is released from his contract with MCA. Right now the Count is on the road with Benny . . . Record of the week: Wings Over Manbattan by Charles Barnet (BLUEBIRD), and "atmosphere" tune on the line of Rhapsody in Blue. Very imaginative arranging of sophisticated melodic patterns built around the 32 bar theme. . . For a girl vocal trio that really swings (Andrews Sisters please note), listen to the Dandridge Sisters with Jinunie Lunceford on Red Wagon and You Ain't Nowhere...
...training is divided into three parts: three months in a candidate's status as enlisted men, undergoing basic training; three months as Reserve Second Lieutenant on active duty undergoing a course of instruction at the marine Corps Schools; and six months of active duty with troops as a Second Lieutenant, Marine Corps Reserve...
...picture it in its most sordid details. It is a never-ending tribute, we feel, to the greatness of Mozart that he could continue composition of 'happy' music even when he himself was most 'unhappy.'" Such a statement as this is dangerous not only because it contains a basic misunderstanding of the true greatness of Mozart and Mozart's music, but because it evidences a rather ill-defined approach to art in general. Great art, need it be said, is an outpouring of the most purified emotional and intellectual experiences of the artist. Anyone who would try to justify...