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...play the game, they must regard handball not only as one of the best conditioners but definitely a stimulus of the competitive instinct upon which the generalship of the military strategist depends. Those who have seen Unlucky Joe Platak defend his title will appreciate TIME'S apt comparison to Joe Louis. Both are veritible tigers of energy and courage. Perhaps TIME'S article will get Unlucky Joe out of the Great Lakes scullery and place him in a service commensurate with his exceptional talents...
Crates & DDs. Constructing cargo vessels (like the Liberty ship) is not comparable with naval shipbuilding. The Liberty is by comparison little more than a long steel crate pinched together at the ends...
This young man's feat paled by comparison with the elderly General's recent escape as it was recounted last week. This time the story sounded, and may have been, too good to be true...
...preface to one of these 16 short plays William Saroyan compares himself to George Bernard Shaw. The comparison is not altogether presumptuous. He shares with Shaw a fearless, sassy gaiety, and like Shaw he holds naturalism, heavyminded-ness and the theater in general in contempt. Both, in Saroyan's words, believe that the theater "all theater-should be fun. . . ." Whatever else they are, these plays and prefaces...
...single year. Cried he: "If the agreement . . . represents a cross section of conduct on the part of the Defense Plant Corporation . . . we are tolerating the existence of an agency of the Government that is so corrupt as to make profiteering in the last war look like petty larceny by comparison...