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Franklin Roosevelt was in fine fettle. It was St. Patrick's Day: he wore a greenish tweed suit, a green tie, a green ribbon in his lapel; on his desk stood a vase of green carnations, a pot of shamrock. He was pleased at having a big cat to let out of the bag-General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork...
MacArthur was gone to a higher command. The Japanese General Homma, licked to a standstill and dead by his own hand, was a handful of ashes in a bedizened shrine. His successor, pot-bellied General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, faced a classic U.S. cavalryman: lean, dashing Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who had been promoted to Lieutenant General to fill Douglas MacArthur's man-size shoes...
...Stumpy, bony-jawed William R. Lowans, ordinary seaman, was in the "pot" (crow's-nest) of a U.S. Navy vessel at twilight one day last week, standing watch on his first trip to sea. Heavy seas frosted his binoculars, rendered them useless. But he kept to the watch. Said he: "I seen this object with my naked eye. It looked like a yaller box, maybe three miles off." The bridge could not see it, pooh-poohed his warning until a ruby-red SOS light appeared. "It" was an orange life raft from a torpedoed ship. Six survivors...
Although Karl Sax, professor of Botany, called his fellow Faculty members "faf, flabby, and pot-bollied," in a letter published yesterday, officials at the Hygiene Department maintained last night that only "a few men fall into this unfortunate classification...
...Faculty vote on compulsory physical training would seem to imply that the professors recognize the value of good physical condition. This assumption is not supported by the evidence. The incidence of fat, flabby, pot-bellied individuals among the Faculty group is too high. Many professors who appear to be in good condition would be unable to do the exercises designed for conditioning the students...