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...describes the battle between the forces of Peter Stuyvesant and those of General Jan Risingh who was in command of the Swedes. Irving goes on to describe how the battle for possession of the Swedish fort waxed so warm that the two generals met face to face in deadly combat. He states that the Swede struck the Dutchman over the head with his sword and that, "the good Peter reeled with the blow . . . and missing his footing, by reason of his wooden leg, down he came on his seat of honor with a crash which shook the surrounding hills...
...Manhattan rehearsal room, under the guidance of a young, handsome, kinetic radio conductor, Raymond Paige, a band of 75 "Young Americans" made a merry din. The Young Americans are vowed to do for U.S. popular music what the Stokowski brood do for the longhairs, are moreover organized specifically to combat subversive ideas. Their sponsor is the League of Young Americans, Inc., whose aim is to rally the one-sixth of the U.S. population that is in its twenties...
...Department had also done its bit to increase efficiency by setting maximum ages for combat officers up through major generals (TIME, Sept. 15). Newsmen calculated that the new retirement limit would knock out commanders of at least three, and possibly six of the 18 National Guard divisions, would touch none of the 17 Regular Army divisions. Not all these officers will be sent home. Many of them will be assigned to desk jobs, a few may even be kicked upstairs to corps commands...
...that when two boys out West died of plague (TIME, Sept. 8), Surgeon General Thomas Parran called a conference which urged the Government to spend $1,800,000 on plague fighting. And though only 1,000 people die of infantile paralysis each year, so much money is raised to combat it that the chief problem is devising ways to spend it. But no one had any idea where to find anything like $2,000,000 a year needed to study aging, the greatest enemy of man's health...
...Signal Corps' one contribution to the Army-Hollywood preview was not a picture, but a sound track writhing with the noise of a modern battlefield. This training film was made for use in Army maneuvers. Its purpose is to simulate the noises made by combat weapons and teach the troops to take...