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...given up his job to enroll. Among the applicants were night watchmen, janitors, clerks, boys who had never worked. Housewives phoned to recommend their husbands, explained that although the husbands were not mechanics by trade, they were handy around the house. Garment workers mistakenly enrolled for a course in pattern cutting, learned that it dealt with cutting machine parts, not underwear. Some applicants arrived on the run to take "machine-gun practice," found that a radio announcer's tongue had slipped: he meant machine-shop practice...
Aside from some accident to the Chiangs the Japanese hope that the strong anti-Communist group in Chungking will become synonymous with a peace movement, that the old politicians will become traitors or appeasers-in short that the pattern of France will be repeated...
...Olympic basketball team. A onetime high-school teacher from U. C. L. A., Baiter wrote action stories for the pulps, treated scripts for Universal before he was wired for sound. Inspired to take to the air by a broadcast of Alexander Woollcott, he arranged his sportscasts in a pattern as intricate as that of the Town Crier, substituted whipcord for Woollcott's lace. His first sponsor was the proprietor of a chain of chili joints, whose clientele listened with stunned admiration to his high-class composition. From his chili sponsor Baiter got $10 a broadcast, zoomed into...
Heir to the blood of the fathers is Meier Borsht, tradesman, the vicissitudes of whose strong-witted life follow the pattern of his dark-bearded ancestors, whose adventures and generations Robert Neumann relates with prodigal invention...
Against this pattern of shifting loyalties the refusal of many Americans to rally to the "defense" of traditional American values can more readily be understood. Harvard Seniors, and countless thousands who feel as they feel, do not oppose necessary defense measures for America if they are necessary and only for defense. They want a democratic arms program, by selective conscription if necessary; not the building up of an amateur and priggish military caste which will exert a tremendous pressure for war. They want a pan-American solidarity based on democracy--not a hemisphere defense program superimposed on commercial exploitation...