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Says Kernan: wars are not won or lost in outposts like the Philippines; they are decided in headlong clashes at the great centers of military strength. His own plan is for a U.S.-British offense against Italy ("the solar plexus of the Axis") this spring, using three-fourths of the U.S. Fleet, at least half of Britain's, every bombing plane and every transport of both nations, an A.E.F. of 200,000 men a month...
Last week in Washington the American Medical Association, which has long been fighting group health schemes, got a stiff left jab to the solar plexus; the arm behind the punch was the Federal Government's. After legal proceedings lasting two and a half years, the Association, and its Washington branch, were convicted by a Federal District Court of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...which is Britain's (with a German salient in Tripoli). So long as the British can keep patrolling this No Man's Land with their Navy, and can keep the salient in Greece, defensively Germany is not safe. She must drop her guard to cover her solar plexus (the Balkans), cannot risk a major blow at Africa for fear of getting rabbit-punched from behind...
Everything is there: the premiere which resembles a festooned church social; the serious artists (. . . When a moving picture is right it socks the eye and the ear and the solar plexus all at once and that is a hell of a temptation for any writer); the buzzing nightclubs ; the stragglers from Pasadena; the masculine-minded feminine population who even pay the checks; the trade-paper racket where you buy good reviews; the frightening bankers from New York who own the studios; the studio commissaries full of rumors and gossip ; the little houses along the beach where the underprivileged...
...University Tutoring School and Fletcher Briggs) gave up the ghost. Early in May the College Tutoring Bureau followed suit. Still busy, however, were the two biggest tutoring schools. Wolff's and Parker-Cramer. Last fortnight, Harvard's Dean A. Chester Hanford socked them in the solar plexus. Any student who attended a commercial tutoring school, he announced, would be "liable to disciplinary action." Harold A. Wolff, proprietor of the biggest school, promptly announced that his school would give up tutoring, would restrict itself to "educational counseling" of students "who have done the work but still do not grasp...