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...doses, soon pass on to specialized training. Some will join combat regiments and battalions, will go into battle with infantry and artillery, lugging in motor trains a fantastic assortment of bulldozers, water-purification outfits, pneumatic drills, earth-borers. Some will join ponton (Engineer for pontoon) companies, will learn to sweat hip-deep in rivers, laying bridges for the infantry. Others will go to topographical (mapmaking) outfits, to railroad-operating companies, to general service regiments, to camouflage battalions, dump-truck companies, water-supply battalions, shop companies, depot companies...
...last week that one of his musical compositions had been loudly applauded. He had never heard the piece himself. The ambulance driver was William Walton, a tall, long-faced, 39-year-old Englishman who seems not to mind the gruesome sights of airraid victims, but says he hates the sweat and agony of musical composition. Nevertheless, William Walton has sweated out some of England's finest contemporary scores...
...BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS-Winston S. Churchill-Putnam...
Best picture of Churchill the Statesman is gained through his own words. Out this week, Blood, Sweat, and Tears is a collection of his public pronouncements from May 1938 to February 1941. They throw into high relief the massive stability and conviction, aged through years of politics into an enlightened Toryism, that fought almost singlehanded against the indecision and bloodlessness that spawned Munich. In their simple eloquence they mirror (and helped cause) the reawakening of a people's faith. Excerpts...
...becoming Prime Minister: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat...