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Asked about the Foreign Service examinations for the consular service. Arnold declared that good English and clear literary style are becoming more important every year, rather than command of many foreign languages...
...referred to the audience as a "tobacco chewing crowd." In approximate figures there were 2,000 in uniform and under military command. These could not chew. There were 5,000 or more school children and 2,000 college students. These do not chew...
...DARK COMMAND-W. R. Burnett -Knopf ($2.50). Lickity-split romance against a background of Kansas-Missouri border fighting; by the author of Little Caesar. A supplementary four-page leaflet explains who his Confederate villain was in real life, makes better reading than much of the novel...
...school has to work fast and overtime to keep filling up the constantly depleted ranks. Through this forcing house for New Bolshevik talent, Russia's Proletarian Writer Fedor Butenko was put with such speed that two months ago, only two years after he matriculated, he was in full command of the Soviet legation at Bucharest, Rumania as Chargé d'Affaires. His unfortunate superior, the Soviet Minister, had just "disappeared...
Ship of the Line begins with a glimpse of Hornblower becalmed at home-bored with his dowdy wife, pawning his sword to get money for ship stores, worried about manning and outfitting his new command, the two-decker Sutherland- but the winds of romance blow hard as soon as he is out of sight of land. Convoying ships of the East India Co., Hornblower drives off two French raiders (incidentally conquering his secret shame, seasickness), accepts the grateful tributes of the merchantmen, then outrages them by seizing their men to fill out his crew. In another 48 hours the phlegmatic...