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They scream we don't understand them when they come home. We don't know what it's like to see our buddy shot down in flames or ripped to pieces with a shell burst. How in hell could we know...
...come home from hell and find us full of lassitude and complacency and you want to kick our teeth in. We can see your point. Can you see our point? We originally were made of the same fabric. Yours is maybe now a little tattered. But it can be mended. We can meet on a common plane if you will understand us too. We are the reality. The scene of battle is in an obscure past. We are the future, your future. You had better accept us and our frailties and our good intentions...
...Senator Cotton Ed Smith galumphed into Washington, vowed he could wreck Term IV. He organized a National Agricultural Committee, set out to "deliver the nation's farm vote" to Tom Dewey in the next five weeks. Roared metaphor-mixing Cotton Ed: "We have taken a nose dive into hell! I have great hopes that a miracle will gird up its loins and try another deal." Next day, the committee folded...
...short-wave radio, who had one of the war's great action stories all to himself. He could tell little through the censorship, but the little he told revealed a battle for the history books. He dubbed the airborne's little island of rubble "this patch of hell." After five days & nights Wood reported "Our men are being asked to do more than ordinary flesh and blood can stand...
...talkative Missouri painter, in Manhattan for the tenth-anniversary exhibition of the Associated American Artists Galleries, unburdened himself of some favorite gripes. He said he went west ten years ago to paint the lore of the U.S. pioneers, was disappointed because people did not support his work. Said he: "Hell, the group controlling the cultural institutions out there . . . repudiated me. They are rich and a rich man doesn't want to be reminded that his backgrounds are mules and manure. He doesn't want a Benton hanging on his walls; he wants a Van Dyck...