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...AWOL from the Oxford University cricket pitch went its bang-on, "blue"-aspiring batsman, First Lieut. Pete Dowkins, 23, Army's 1958 All-America halfback and currently a Rhodes scholar. His destination: the States and a month's-end marriage in West Point's Cadet Chapel to Judi Wright, 22, a University of Maryland alumna who followed him to England as a U.S. Air Force schoolmarm...
Trujillo Jr., 32, one of Trujillo's four acknowledged offspring. A polo-loving playboy, his main claim to fame until now was flunking out of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth while AWOL in pursuit (despite a wife and six children) of Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor (to whom he gave a $5,500 Mercedes-Benz, a $17,000 chinchilla coat). Commissioned by Daddy as an army colonel at the age of three and promoted to brigadier general at nine, Ramfis has little in his record to suggest the tenacity and talent needed...
Items: Private Demara (Tony Curtis) goes AWOL from the Army, fakes academic credentials, joins the Marines as an officer. When the FBI starts to check up, he jumps the fence, fakes more credentials, enters a Trappist monastery. When the Trappists find him too secular, to contemplate, they gently return him to the cruel, FBInfested world. After doing 18 months in a military prison, Demara borrows the warden's admirable prison record, gets a key job in a Texas pokey, makes a hit with staff and prisoners alike before he has to run. And so on till the hero joins...
Morgan is an adventurer and drifter who joined the U.S. Army when he was 18, served with the occupation forces in Japan, then escaped from a stockade (where he was serving three months for going AWOL) by disarming a guard. Recaptured, he was sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary...
...blitz: fire-fighting brigades, their tough prewar ranks swollen by amateurs, were poorly coordinated, and water reserves were badly located. Worse, 35 weeks of bombardment had hardened London into taking business and pleasure as usual; on the night of the great raid, perhaps half the fire watchers were AWOL...