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...last week, 14,000 reservists had been called to duty. Most of them were straightway dumped into regular Army outfits to replace professionals promoted to higher commands or assigned to special administrative work. Today every platoon commander of regulars is a Reserve lieutenant, and 70% of regular companies are commanded by Reserve captains. One reservist, Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, general manager of the New York Times, is in command of the Army's big reception centre at Fort Dix, N. J., and many another major and colonel has been dropped into an Army administrative...
...Nicaragua, of duty in Samoa and Shanghai. He reads that history in campaign ribbons on oldtimers' blouses, in battle streamers on the regimental flags, in the Corps motto, "Semper Fidelis." He is first repelled, then fascinated by the shout of a sweating sergeant to his bleeding, hesitant platoon at Chateau-Thierry: "Come on, you - , do you want to live forever?" When a detachment shoves off for service on a foreign shore, oldtimers who have been left out-both officers and men-pack their duffle and carry it down to the station or dock, hoping that someone may have...
Such a war was the American Revolution. In it fought Sergeant Roger Lamb, whom Officer Robert Graves of the Royal Welch Fusiliers discovered while teaching his platoon their regimental history in 1914. Quarter of a century later, Graves had decided the American Revolution was "the most important single event of modern times." And, visiting in Princeton, N. J., he was struck by the U. S.'s magnificent reception of George VI and his Queen. Graves's thoughts returned to Sergeant Lamb. Result is a fresh and provoking historical romance, Sergeant Lamb's America, out this week...
...fleet and charming ballets interrupted by specialty turns and, not often enough for many spectators, Joe Cook. Steel runners on ice add many mobile possibilities to the human body, and these have never been better exploited, thanks largely to the choreography of Catherine Littlefield & Robert Linden, which avoids boring platoon movements and sticks to free, whirling ballet designs...
Lieutenant Richard W. Annand's platoon ran out of ammunition while defending a blasted bridgehead on the Dyle River in Belgium. The Germans started across the river. Lieut. Annand ran forward alone into machine-gun fire, bombarded the enemy with hand grenades, drove them back with more than 20 casualties. Later that night, though wounded, he repeated the performance. When he was finally ordered to withdraw his platoon, he did so in good order, but found his batman (orderly) had been left behind. He went back, fetched the orderly in a wheelbarrow, then passed...