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...class fighting force. Working till they were wobbly, sleeping on the ground in cold and rain, the First Army's sickness rate was about half the rate for regulars in garrison. Its morale was tops; after long hikes, fights through underbrush, soldiers were not too tired to shave, brush their teeth, skylark. The supply system, running in food and ammunition for an army bigger than the population of Schenectady, N. Y., had worked without a major hitch. Staff work was better than it had ever been before, traffic ran without road clogs. Soldiers behaved better. Except for two besotted...
This week, back at their home stations, National Guardsmen waited for the President's call for a year's active service, had the prospect of longer and bigger maneuvers to brush up basic combat lessons, develop the kind of teamwork the Germans have. Regulars hoped Congress would soon pass a conscription bill. For-besides men and equipment-what the Army needs is practice, practice, more practice. No Army man forgets that it took the Germans seven years...
...past life passes before him at such times, some strange scenes appeared to Trotsky in his coma: the first trip of nine-year-old Lev Davidovich Bronstein from the farm in Kherson Province to school in Odessa; his first brush with Marxism in the seventh grade in Nikolayev; his conversion to the cause after the woman Vetrova burned herself to death in a prison cell; his first arrest in 1898; prison in Moscow, where he married Alexandra Lvovna; Siberia in 1900; escape to England in 1902, without Alexandra but with a passport forged in the name of Trotsky, which stuck...
...with new U. S. Minister to Australia Clarence Gauss in attendance. While the Prime Minister quietly took his political soundings, Major General John Northcott was promoted to act as new Chief of the Australian General Staff. The late Chief, Sir Brudenell White, was buried last week in a little brush cemetery a few miles from his ranch...
...second heat, Baby had things his own way from start to finish. Favored with the rail position (because of his victory in the first heat), he got in front fast and stayed there-Driver Egan looking as unruffled as though he were out for a morning brush. But when they reached the wire (in 2:03), 60-year-old Fred Egan let out a moppet's yell. After trying twelve times, he had won his first Hambletonian...