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Some 3,000,000 will in a sense have dinner on a brisk, sandy-haired little man: Lieut. General Lesley James McNair, Chief of the Army Ground Forces. It is he who is training the new Army's doughboys, anti-aircraftsmen, field artillerymen, tankers, cavalrymen-all except the airmen and the Services of Supply-for the toughest war any U.S. army ever had to fight...
Wells & Bel Geddes. Beyond Tri-Tactics real war-games buffs sail into the blue of their own inventions. As long ago as 1914 H. G. Wells, in Little Wars, told how he and his friends had played with toy cannon, soldiers, houses and mock terrain, a play war of "brisk little battles." In 1917 Hudson Maxim, the inventor and explosives expert, revealed with some disgust that he had been forced to redesign his own war game to include the new factor of airpower. A New Yorker profile of Norman Bel Geddes in 1941 noted...
...CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTEN- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Another brisk, shrewdly plotted and forthrightly told Perry Mason story, in which the adroit lawyer-sleuth cooperates with an intelligent and wary police lieutenant. Mason's analysis of feline antics supplies the payoff clue to an elusive killer and a pair of carefully contrived murders...
...Sister Eileen (Columbia) was made from the play which was made from the stories by Ruth McKenney. It is a brisk sister act on one of the century's favorite comic themes-that of the two young women from the sticks, one plain and smart, the other lovely and not so smart, who try their luck in the metropolis...
...Miss Mac" is no career-type Amazon. Alert, bright-eyed, jaunty, she leavens a business-like matter-of-factness with quick wit and brisk speech. She is trim, well-dressed, efficient and, as she puts it, she has fallen for the Navy...