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College men have gotten all the breaks in this Army of the United States. Sure, we all know about the former graduate student in architecture who first blows up the pillbox on the local beach and only then gets down to work plying his trade in the form of sundry beach-landing structures. He can claim the Army has read the qualification card too literally. So can the disgruntled G.I. who is in the mechanized cavalry because his mother was a bareback equestrienne for Barnum and Bailey. Nobody's denying they make mistakes in classification. It's a big Army...
...theme here is "Breaks Gotten by College Men In A Ten Million Man Army Where There Isn't Too Much Time To Look Into The Individual Qualifications of The Guy Who Thinks He Ought To Be An Officer Because Well Just Look At That Dumb Shavetail." The Army is chuck full of officers, so forget it if you're thinking of having your Old Man buy you a commission in the Black Watch or the Third Highland Fusileers when you graduate from A-12 or Boy Scout Troop...
Gold Bars aside (Ha, Ha), though, the College Man in the Class of '45 has gotten the breaks. Proof, you say? Well, let's take that indispensable quantity, conviviality. Not everybody's got conviviality in the Army. Suppose you were manning an AA gun on a dreary building somewhere along Broadway or Fifth Avenue. Or suppose you were one of the lucky privates who beat the Meteorology racket. A guy I know did, and now he's buried away atop an office building on Third Avenue and 42nd Street in N. Y. What kind of conviviality is that...
When his cable was written Sherrod had just gotten back to his ship after three full days under constant fire during which he had only three hours sleep...
Suffering from one of the worst creative slumps in years, Broadway is enjoying one of the greatest box-office booms in history. Packing the theaters are coin-heavy, gas-rationed Manhattan escapists, droves of visiting defense workers hell-bent to spend their mill-gotten gains. The critics, bidding the waves of hogwash recede, are often in a class with Canute. In the past month most critics have trounced Frederick Lonsdale's Another Love Story, Lou Walters' Artists and Models, Gypsy Rose Lee's The Naked Genius (which even the author held her nose at), Rose Franken...