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Other productions on the evening's program were "The Reverend's Advice," staged by the third platoon and featuring H. L. "Happy" Graves who literally took the shirt of of W. B. Brown's and Fred Hanle's backs; "A Sober Day at Harvard", a satire given by the second platoon; "They'll Bear Watching", offered by platoon eight; two skits, "Old and New Watch" and "Hitler's Speech on the Harvard Communications school", presented by platoon...
...years ago sober, scholarly William McChesney Martin left his $48,000-a-year job as president of the New York Stock Exchange, entered the Army at $21 a month. Private Bill Martin learned that a man who had worked 18 hours a day in civilian life (as he had) could climb fast in the Army. Painstakingly he learned to shoot a rifle, even tried to pay the Government for extra practice ammunition. In his tent at nights, he studied military histories, textbooks on strategy...
Millions of people in the U.S., in Britain and on the Continent believe that the Allied invasion of Europe is very near. A few sober-heads have reflected that London and Washington might be waging a war of nerves, that censors who pass speculative articles might be less willing to permit predictions if the real thing were about to occur. But the expectancy is genuine. From London, heart of the Allies' main base for operations against the Continent, TIME Correspondent Edward Lockett this week cabled this report on how the world looked from that capital...
From those less conditioned to Stalinist reflexes, the reactions were different. The New York Times's sober Anne O'Hare McCormick argued that the film "fails utterly to do justice to Russia, grossly misrepresents the United States, and would not sell international cooperation to anybody." Author Max Eastman (Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism) considered it "the high point of a wave of national self-abasement." Literary Critic Edmund Wilson, a onetime Marxist, saw it as a "fraud on the American people...
...York Times, not known to be under the influence of stimulants, announced the latest sober step forward in Eli Elucidation thus: "Special Yale School to Study Alcoholism; Purpose Is to Train Community Leaders." If, when in New Haven sometime in the Post-War World, you are unable to locate the local pub, just appeal for some community leadership...