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...Sergeant Howard D. Pratt of Spokane, Wash, lost his way, entered a cave, met two German soldiers. Hand grenade ready, he asked the way back. They told him. On second thought, he ordered them to come along as guides. At once, 19 other Germans emerged, surrendered, returned with Sergeant Howard...
Statement of a Difference. Essential difference between Jane and Joe was pointed out by a Fort Des Moines recruit who was being loaded into an already jampacked Army truck. "Hey, sergeant," she protested, "have a heart, this bus is full." Said the tough male sergeant: "Lady, I been getting 18 men into these trucks and I sure as hell can get 18 WACs in." Wailed the squeezed WAC: "But men are broad in the shoulders...
...last week air delivery had become just one more unconventional routine for the News and its editor, 28-year-old Sergeant Don Robinson (ex-Knoxville News Senfinel, Albuquerque Tribune, Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman). Born in September 1940, as the "first [Army] paper of the national emergency," the News has gone along with its outfit through half a dozen U.S. camps and into Mediterranean battles. It has also done a notable job of covering the 45th in combat...
Robinson and his four staffers are as casual about battle dangers as a weekly's reporter covering the Sunday-school cake sale. Sample reportage: "Staff Sergeant Oscar Duebec pulled the pin from a grenade he was about to hurl with his right hand when he was wounded in the left hand. Perplexed, he decided to walk to the aid station, keeping the grenade immobilized by continuing to grasp the lever in his right palm. Anxious medics hurriedly stitched the wound, whereupon Duebec walked back . . . relieved everyone by chucking the grenade into enemy positions...
...massive omissions. None of the writing in this anthology has had any pro found influence on the world. Of the books that have really influenced European minds since 1920, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Arnold Zweig's The Case of Sergeant Grischa are not even mentioned; Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf comes under the editors' ban against "fascist elements" in "style and ideology"; books by Lenin and Trotzky (easily the most brilliant writing that has appeared in Russia since the Revolution) and Oswald Spengler's The Decline...