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...horror stories, stern advice devised to wake a man up to the danger of World War II, to arouse his patriotism, make him work longer hours, buy defense bonds, write his Congressman, give up luxuries, hand over his wife's kitchen aluminum; to fork out for the Community Chest, the Czechs, Poles, Dutch, Belgians, French, Spanish, Chinese, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Finns, the Red Cross, Norwegians, British and the U.S.; to pay more taxes, use less gasoline, strike less often, have his wife go without silk stockings. Federal officials punched the needle into him with alternate injections of numbing anesthetic...
...like to "give the devil his due." Had California been taken from us 20 years ago, we most certainly would get it back and we wouldn't go to Munich and ask John Bull's permission either. And if he threw out his mighty chest in defiance because he thought he ruled the earth as well as the seas, we'd likewise teach him to mind his own business, wouldn't we ? I can't appreciate a big bully who, after getting his ears pinned back for butting in, comes crying to Uncle...
Having unearthed a perfect draftee (TIME, Nov. 10), the Army got around to figuring out a composite one. He is quite a trim character, a little on the small side. He stands 5 ft. 8 in., weighs 144 lb., has a lean 31-in. waistline, a 33¼-in. chest, feet that can be fitted with 9½-D shoes. To keep him during his first year in the Army, the Quartermaster Corps shells out $404.65-$175.20 (48? a day) for food; $162.05 for clothing; $15.79 for individual equipment such as shaving gear; $51.61 for barracks equipment such as sheets...
...first division in the Army to be fully motorized (i.e., put on wheels), the Fourth puffed out its expanded chest still more when it took on its new form last month. Said sunburnt men (40% draftees), squinting across the road at the cantonment of the crack Second Armored Division: "Now we'll show those high & mighty bastards something...
Early one spring morning, a husky young surgeon ran up 20 steps to the door of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Suddenly he felt a stabbing pain in his chest; he broke out in a cold sweat, gasped for breath. His colleagues rushed him off to bed. A few days after this heart attack they found that a blood clot had formed in one of the chambers of his heart...