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Brining Diosa Costello to the last NTS the new Naval group at the school, as they held their first little private party last night, with songs and skits by the S-O's and a pair of girls, who "tap dance" was a "sender" according...
...rapidly becoming obsolete. The inevitable trend points toward the training of as many officers as possible as soon as possible. The Enlisted Reserves System has emphatically changed its emphasis from a deferment plan for allowing potential officers to complete their college training, to a means of keeping constantly on tap and ready for immediate call a backlog of officer candidates. Vague as it is at present, there can be little doubt as to the eventual shape of the ERC and other reserve...
Emcee for the evening was S-O Edward C. Bunker, regimental commander, who introduced Robinson and his competitor, the school's own tap dance artist, S-O W. Bartley Chase. The show was part of a regular series of weekly events which began last Week with the shimmies of Diosa Costello. The next show will probably be a smoker on Monday...
...streets are still black, except when bombs land. In that moment the outline of the buildings is silhouetted against the sky and reminds one of a fortress. Indeed Stalingrad is a fortress. Underground we enter the staff headquarters. Telegraph girls, their faces pale from sleepless nights and explosion dust, tap out dots and dashes. Communication officers pass with quick steps. In their dispatches they do not write about the hills, valleys or heights, but about suburbs, streets and sometimes even single buildings. I try to light a match, but it is quickly smothered. Here underground there is not enough oxygen...
Meantime the "Lidice Lives" Committee of the Writers' War Board (executive chairman: Fadiman) got a little tap on the knuckles from Premier Adélard Godbout of Quebec. The town of Frelighsburg, Quebec, announced the committee, would change its name to Lidice. But Frelighsburg had not been informed, and shortly Premier Godbout announced simply: Frelighsburg will be Frelighsburg and Clifton Fadiman will be Clifton Fadiman...