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...tiger hunter is the new President of the Methodist Church's Council of Bishops. This week some 40 members of the Council, who met at Princeton, N.J., put finishing touches on the forthcoming Bishops' Crusade (TIME, Nov. 22), mapped the Episcopal Visitation Plan (assigning Bishops to preside over the Church's 114 annual conferences in 1944), discussed how many millions of dollars to raise for Methodism's postwar reconstruction program, and chose their new President, highest honor in U.S. Methodism. Because the presidency alternates annually between a Southerner and a Northerner (a courtesy dating from...
...face, of course, but he probably got the ideas, and we certainly did. It was not too funny, but good for our battered Egos. Then there was one from Old Nassau (a fine example of the manic depressive among College Men At War) whom we thought should be called Tiger...
...Tiger was a mere wisp of a man, but he had no intention of taking a ribbing from some Ivy League Privates. So he got mean and wrathful and sent some of the boys to see the mess sergeant because their beds were a quarter of an inch from the crack in the floor that stood as the great divide. Two nights later we ate Tiger. Not literally, of course, but it was delicious. In the midst of a black and tortured night march, we broke into a sombre dirge. "Hold that Tiger, rrrrrrooomph, hold that Tiger, rrrrromph. The Tiger...
...Tiger at the Crouch. Many men-including men who have served under him-call Chennault a genius. But an Army colonel who was with him in China said: "I get irritated when I hear people calling Chennault a genius. He isn't. A genius would probably go mad out there...
Brilliant Catfight. The particular symposium in The Republic that is devoted to foreign affairs turns out to be a brilliant and bitter catfight. As a tiger among lesser cats, Beard claws all his enemies in this particular chapter to death. Beard's opponents have fictitious names, but it is easy to identify them with the beliefs of Dr. James Shotwell, Clarence Streit, Ely Culbertson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Pearl Buck and others. The weakness of this foreign-policy symposium derives from its satirical intent, which is not in keeping with The Republic as a whole. Walter Lippmann, for example...