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...another day and another fifty cents lost on the drill field--maybe your columnist should go back to matching dimes instead of quarters, but dimes seem like kid stuff after being in the Navy for six months...
After that spicey introduction it might be worth while to inform you that this column will once again appear irregularly in the HARVARD SERVICE NEWS. No less a personage than a two-striper begged your columnist to take a few moments off from his studies in order to resume his contributions. The dignitary in question emphasized the importance of keeping a column in the NEWS for any necessary announcements that need wide publicity. He must think somebody reads this tripe. The only announcement for today is that cokes and apples will be served in Morris D-14 tonight...
Henry Cabot Lodge's report to the Senate was rooted in an experience that Columnist Ray Clapper wished every Congressman could have. The Senators had not returned from beyond the three-mile limit as experts. They had been in the way of the war at times, had been a headache to the military. But they had come back with one lesson deeply engraved: World War II is a long way from being won. Said Maine's Brewster, summing up: "Our soldiers know how tough this war is. We ought to know how tough...
...praised for his work as Lend-Lease Administrator (TIME, Oct. 4), now faced the toughest administrative job of his career. Largely in his hands was the direction of a maze of State Department activities which spread around the globe. The new Under Secretary started with a great advantage. Even Columnist Drew Pearson, roundly denounced by Franklin Roosevelt for calling the State Department anti-Russian, said: "The Russians . . . believe in Stettinius...
Scotsmen Don't Kick. Religion, politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted...