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Until recently the defenses of the Philippines have been split under several commands. Keystone of Philippine defense are the U.S. regulars and the Philippine Scouts. Few months ago these pros totaled some 10,000. But this year, while the Navy has built up its Asiatic Fleet with patrol bombers, submarines, surface craft, the Army has not been idle. Army strength in the Philippines today is a military secret...
...year after he wrote this lyric, William Guggenheim, 72, maverick brother of the copper tycoons, wrote a last will & testament that was even cornier. The will left nothing to his wife and child, split his $1,000,000 estate (Broadway's estimate) equally among four women-all his "protegees" at the time of his death last June. The protégées: Lillyan Andrus (Miss America of '29), Mildred Borst (Miss Connecticut of '30), Marialyce Rice, a Texas-born Ziegfeld beauty. The fourth beneficiary: his secretary, Florence Sullivan...
...personnel of the draft army is as split on this issue of intervention v. isolation as the general public is. But the doctrine of isolation . . . as I have observed it in the Army, is a poisonous thing. . . . Our own officers, to my mind, are not tough enough to drill into the men the idea that Hitler-alone-is our enemy and that Naziism must be destroyed before America is safe. Perhaps somebody ought to quit talking about defense and start talking about war. You'd be amazed at the number of men in the Army today who blindly seem...
...specially trained professional actress. The patient may act himself, his mother, his wife, or any role he chooses. The actors all move freely about the stage, sometimes merely chatting, sometimes bursting out with hidden longings, or even "killing each other." Somehow acting integrates broken fragments of a split personality. A patient who is obsessed by death, for example, may forget his terrors when he acts the part of a grocer or salesman. The little dramas unfold as spontaneously as children playing...
Meanwhile, rich ASCAP decided to split a million-dollar melon (cut largely out of lush past earnings) among its membership for the second quarter of 1941, just to buck up morale...