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Fortnight ago General H. H. Arnold and Britain's Field Marshal Sir John Dill held secret conference with Chungking officials, flew to New Delhi with China's General Ho Ying-chin. Announcing the Chungking conference, the War Department had said: "The fullest possible coordination [of British and U.S. efforts in Asia] will be assured by subsequent conferences between General MacArthur and General Wavell." Last week Washington announced that General Walter Krueger had arrived in Australia to take command of a newly activated Sixth Army. But the only practical route to China is through Burma. There Wavell...
...years of high school) for enlisted women, from 20 to 50 (with a minimum of two years of college, two years' business experience) for officer candidates. Besides important military work, she can promise them a snappy uniform-forest green blouse and skirt, a snappy cap with a scarlet chin strap, a scarlet muffler for accent on the Marines' traditional color. Wives of Marines are barred. Marriage to a Marine after induction is also forbidden, on pain of being dropped from the Corps. But marriage to Army, Navy or Coast Guard...
...Taylor started the light flashing in the second when he batted in a rebound set up by the Everts-Harding corporation. Then Princeton's Mr. Northrap, apparently desirous of emulating Pennsylvania's immortal Gallagher, left the ice for the first time, for checking Tooker Harding rather violently on the chin. While he was out Everts accounted for his second goal of the evening...
Troop Trouper. Hope has a chin like a snowplow, a nose that led Comic Fred Allen to describe him as "ski-snoot," and a trigger wit that produces a crop of studio stories with every Hope picture. This time, the first day on the set Hope took one look at Miss Lamour's fulsome costume-suit, blouse, stockings, etc.-and exclaimed: "For heaven's sakes, Dorothy, why don't you go home and take something off?" One sequence required him to kiss heavily lipsticked Dorothy three times. When the make-up man brought him a mirror, Hope...
...second platoon moved forward a land mine accidentally exploded in the face of a young lieutenant. He stopped a second, then crawled on with blood dripping from his chin. (Wounds: painful but minor.) Said he to another file: "Please look out for my rifle, will...