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Flowers of the desert stretched across Arizona; Picacho Pass, where the only far western encounter of the Civil War was fought, was splotched with pale yellow poppies, blue lupins, red Indian paint brush...
Last week, on the brush-covered, gully-cut hills of Camp Bullis, 20 miles northwest of San Antonio, Tex., demolition experts previewed the program, found it good. Potential "students" and newshawks, advised to "look up and dodge" rather than seek cover, watched a picked demolition detail lop off a 17-in. tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string...
...Unhappy members of the $60,000,000 U.S. brush industry heard a WPB-man liken them to the quick & the dead: "We thought we could supply you with nylon. . . . Three days later . . . there was no supply for us. There isn't a substitute material that we know of that that cannot happen...
...going back to the front with handsome recognition from his country: the Distinguished Service Cross* and Silver Star Medal for gallantry, the Purple Heart with two clasps, signifying his three battle wounds. Two of his wounds were still bandaged; the third did not show. In his last brush with the Jap, Arthur Wermuth had been shot in the chest, close to the heart. When he announced that he was going back to the front, the doctors in the tent hospital shook their heads and let him go. The wound was still open and draining as Wermuth sloshed through the rain...
...Colonel Steel's "Foreign Legion characters," the men reserved a top place for 2nd Lieutenant John Flynn, recently commissioned after 33 years of Army service. A sad-eyed Mr. Chips, Flynn delights his men by mixing tobacco juice and contempt for Jap marksmanship on scouting trips into the brush...