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Whatever rewards world leadership might return in the long run, they would not be reaped until the hold of want and oppression on the world's throat was broken. The country's decision to break it was the vastest gamble in peacetime history. George Marshall's estimate-"calculated risk"-meant in soldier's language that it could be won, if all went well, if the most powerful nation in the world threw all its physical and moral strength into the fight...
...football looked pretty tempting to 2nd Lieut. Glenn Davis, late of West Point. It obviously had more glamor as well as more pay than his Army job ($2,412 a year). So he wrote a confidential letter of resignation to his commanding officers. Last week, after some noisy throat-clearing in Washington, "Junior" Davis got a sharp answer from Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall. Normally, said Royall, an officer can resign from the Army when he wants to, but this was still a time of "national emergency." The Army, he said, needs trained officers "who, in good faith, entered...
Toronto's rough, tough Maple Leafs, known as hockey's bad men, had no corner on rowdiness. The Detroit Red Wings, no sissies themselves, met them whack for whack two weeks ago. Last week, with the two teams neck & neck (or throat to throat) for the National Hockey League lead, 13,284 Torontonians turned out to see another battle of bashed heads...
...with a cold during the League meetings last week, was confident that the Arabs would find arms. From his sickbed, his lank form swathed in white-&-orange striped flannel pajamas, Azzam Pasha told a TIME correspondent: "When you are living among rogues and they are going to cut your throat, you will find a revolver somewhere. You'll buy it or steal...
Miss West lights up the darkness of this trial with fierce flashes of observation. But none is so shocking as the reaction of Joyce when he heard the word "hanging" casually mentioned in court. By an unconscious reflex, he raised his hand and with his finger touched his throat...