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Show ffhl.Phillipr I? THE WINNERS The Kellys, the Lockards, the Ca-seys, Ca-seys, the Andersons and the Lieu-nn Lieu-nn ii 1 j tenant Coxes will wul this war! . . . 7" They and the other American '"v kids, bred in the ASf. daredevil full-LX full-LX swinging, sock-it-J ?. outa-the-park tra- 4 M dition . . . The smash-that-line, block-tliat-kick, pickle-that-apple, drive-the-green, nail-him-on-tlie-beezer, clear-the-bases youngsters. The boys too cocky, confident ana courageous to doubt, quibble or hesitate hesi-tate . . . The youngsters who have not lived long enough to lose an illusion, to figure the percentages or to question ques-tion their own impulses. i The Tom Saw- m " ww yen, the Peck's , , -, i Bad Boys, the Slats McGonigles and' jwtfrs : the Kayo Mc- cJf. Ganns ... , yt The Yanks who J are still young . ff) enough to believe jL .f ' A H Goliath was a pushover for David, that Jack the Giant Killer ivas under-written, and that Superman Super-man can be seen in any mirror . . . The buckoes who have had no dreams shattered, no hopes battered and no words destroyed . . . The boys who, with two strikes on 'em, can say, "Here's where 1 pickle one, ya bum!" The Butch O'Hares, the Joe Moores, the "Jake" Schwartzes and the Grant Mahoneys they will do the job. The boys too full of high hopes and self-confidence to worry about costs ... The lads with pink cheeks and flashing eyes, ready for a fight or f"l a frolic, able to sing before a rendezvous with ; death, able to look ' disaster in the face and give it I jr . : the Bronx cheer. iTjvj The kids whose impulses are foreign for-eign to the conference room, the staff huddle, the parleys; and whose minds say "Lemme at 'em!" and never, "Suppose the plan goes wrong?" They'll sew it up . . . the "Skin-nies," "Skin-nies," the "Reds," the "Spikes," the "Mickeys" and the "Freckles" of the sandlots, farms and campuses, cam-puses, born and raised in the spirit of high competition, split-second reflexes, re-flexes, hair-raising exploits and hits-in-the-pinches. The kids who have never learned to play safe . . . The bimboes who swing from the floor, get up when they're groggy. put over the hay- '.j! maker, pole out .-,. . ; : , the homer with I' ;.-3fifjbf'''j the bases full, I , 1? JT' ' race the lengths-. ,1l pll ' of the grid for a I -A-? . ; ' touchdown, hole out with a bras- f-i SVif HJ sie shot . . . The boys who are too young to ask "Suppose this doesn't work out according to plan?" "It's a good idea but will it stand analysis?" or "What's in it for me?" The youngsters who have never known the meaning of expediency. They will finish this war . . . The boys who rate many things above influence, prestige, cash, power pow-er and transportation by beach-wagon .. . The kids who are not protecting a past, primming sails to meet the present or worrying about the future fu-ture . . . The fellows who have never j learned to compromise, haggle or defer . . . The ones with all the flamintf u imagination of children, the supreme su-preme confidence of the kid pitcher, the hell-for-leather gusto of the boy socker who comes to bat in the J ninth with the bases full and two down . . The kids who have never had to have their blood pressure taken and who think a fallen arch has something some-thing to do with Pompeii. The youngsters who can never nev-er be Imagined saying "Let's talk this over." "Hadn't we better bet-ter wait for the breaks?" "Let's check and doublecheck before we do anything." ' The boys who rate "Zowie!" "Pow!" and "Wham!" as the three most expressive words in any language. lan-guage. HERO I jumped into the icy lake And dragged him in the boat No hero's bows I want to take I just had signed his note. Merrill Chilcote. C ' ' ' "Japs Use Elephants in Surprise Attack." headline. How anybody can make a surprise attack with elephants baffles El- mer TwitcheH, who is so nervous ha X- gets easily alarmed by mice. &J ... K Put this sign on your jaw, "Closed for the War." |