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...Strait Jacket? Actually, the regulations, drastic though they sounded, were from the censorship provisions of the Army Field Manual, under which war correspondents worked during World War II. What shook newsmen was not the language, but the way Thompson's small band of inexperienced censors began interpreting it. Newsmen were told that they might no longer use the word "retreat." Retreat, it appeared, was only what the enemy did. The Eighth Army's backpedaling was all part of a plan, said security officers, therefore it should and would be called a "withdrawal"no exceptions tolerated...
Comparing itself to "a Woman who wants to keep step with the modern tempo," the Harvard Alumni Bulletin has abandoned its conservative dark red cover and substituted a new, brighter red and white jacket...
There was a man named . . . Brigadier General Thomas O. Hardin . . . In his leather jacket and beat-up hat, he was zipping back & forth over the Hump at times when any self-respecting general would have been making out his per diem vouchers. . Legend has it that he started over one night shortly after a group of transports took off. Arriving in China, he was something less than delighted to learn that all of the transports had turned back because of thunderstorms. He then issued his famous proclamation: "There will be no more turning back because of weather conditions...
...Secretary of State Dean Acheson one day last week, he wore mufti; among Washington's worried civilian functionaries he seemed no more confident, no less harried than the rest. After his talk with the Secretary of State, Eisenhower changed quickly into his working clothes-officers' pinks, Eisenhower jacket, and the five-star shoulder circlets of a General of the Army...
Much of Second Threshold is written with Philip Barry's accustomed smoothness, his light talk glancing through the latticework of his troubled tale. The underlying theme is not new to Barry: more than once he pierced to the Puritan inside the worldling, the hair shirt beneath the dinner jacket. Barry was rather fascinated by the guilt that wouldn't come off the gingerbread. But in Second Threshold too much is not explained: Barry never really comes to grips with Bolton, nor Bolton with himself. And the play fishes in waters too dark to hook so flabby a solution...