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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1943
Page
8
Private Marios Hargrove, former North Carolina newspaper editor, has joined the army and trains at Fort Bragg as a cook. He notes heavy KP duties and kitchen work, while lamenting army pastime habits and the art of “bull session” among the men.
In a wartime camp the evening bull sessions pace a routine led by various characters. Private Hulce chats about the Smith family while others boast plans and past exploits. A humorously brutal twist follows when Private Hargrove is slated for cook duties, threatening morale, as a top sergeant envisions him as a peculiar public relations asset.
In recalling Captain Charley Paddock’s tale, a world record pace near nine seconds for 100 yards caused him to hallucinate a superlative race. He slowed instinctively to avoid a crippling blowout, finishing just shy of the nine second mark as his legs trembled and quivered.
Veteran trainer compares horse limits to human performance. He notes Johnstown’s blistering mile pace around 1 33 and Count Fleet’s racing troubles from excess speed. Discussion covers four minute miles, sprintlike endurance, and speculation on Swedish miler Anderson and Hagg. The piece links harness racing enthusiasm to broader speed limits in equine sport.
A column recalling wartime politics criticizes FBI arraignment delays, notes Goering medal vanity, and mocks press handling of Nazi agents. It traverses figures from Franco to Mussolini, laments censorship, and sketches New York site images and public attitudes amid the war era.
Greece. A captain. Norway. The engineers. Red. Six feet. South Africa. Davit.
A compact aphorism attributed to Jeremy Taylor on anger's origin. It distinguishes anger from causes large or small, noting that great causes yield fury while minor ones produce peevishness, always framing anger as either terrible or ridiculous.
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