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...yearning 'Cliffedwellers want all the nice servicemen at Harvard, regardless of the cut of their blues or O.D.'s, to come out to Agassiz Hall (ask any bespectacled, book-toting skirt for the direction) on Friday nights, beginning March 9, from 1930 to 2145, for ping-pong, darts, and dancing...
Newly arrived from Britain is a cheerful film, Back to Normal, showing young Britons merrily dancing and playing tennis and ping-pong, a carpenter at work with his tools, a child playing on a slide, a matron sedately pedaling a bicycle to market. What makes these ordinary goings-on extraordinary is the fact that all the actors are war-wounded cripples, with artificial arms or legs. The British Ministry of Information produced the film to reassure its bomb-battered people. It may be some comfort also to families of the 5,000-plus U.S. soldiers (the Navy has released...
Vandenberg (a nephew of Michigan's U.S. Senator) gets along with his crewmen and enlistees by talking air-slanguage with the slangiest of them,* playing volleyball and ping-pong with them, and usually beating them. A dashing figure in impeccable uniform, cap set at a rakish angle, he seems to be always in action. He usually flies his own Thunderbolt in hops to staff headquarters. Back at his own post, he wants a lot of his own staff around in the evening, insists on singing with a quartet although he cannot carry a tune...
...weather last week came to the aid of Allied forces in southwestern China. It was bitter weather, and it brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
Letters to the Editor. China's press and leaders suddenly became articulate about the plight of patient lao ping. Said General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The military set-backs will do us more good than harm. The more defeats we suffer, the more daring is the press in expressing its opinions. Previously we knew little about the fact that our soldiers were underfed and thinly clad." In a national campaign to "comfort the troops," great sums of money were collected. Little was donated direct to the Government for disbursement by slow-moving bureaucrats. But millions of Chinese dollars (on current...