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Dave Hirsh, late-thirtyish mock hero of Running, is that stock figure of much modern fiction, the self-pitying sore head who believes that the world owes him a loving. Dave is a World War II veteran and the author of two minor novels. He has been AWOL from his typewriter for seven years, and Choctaw rather than English would appear to be his first language. Sample: "A person could actually kill themselves that way." On an alcoholic whim, Dave returns in 1947 to Parkman. Ill., the hick home town he had deserted 19 years earlier in flight from...
...Sorry." Girard, his pompadour and long sideburns carefully cropped and brushed, arrived in Maebashi for the trial still under the 24-hour guard set over him since he went AWOL on a drinking spree a few weeks ago. In the dock he sat uncomfortably, gazing dazedly at the three-judge tribunal, his onetime swagger gone. When the charge was read out, Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi summoned Girard to the witness stand and beamed at him like a benign headmaster. "You don't have to answer any questions unless you want to," said Kawachi. "Is there anything you want...
...Tokyo, where he awaits a Japanese trial for manslaughter, Army Specialist Third Class William Girard, center of a celebrated legal case, sprang himself from Camp Whittington for three hours of AWOL bottling in a Japanese saloon, was placed back under 24-hr, guard when he showed up at camp again...
...discipline: of Platoon 71's 68 survivors, 63 were sent from Camp Lejeune to Parris Island for possible use as witnesses in the court-martial. Of these, two promptly went over the hill. Of the five not at Parris Island, one is in the hospital, one is AWOL, one has deserted, one is being held for commanding officer's punishment, one is in the brig...
...Yourself. In Irvington, N.J., arrested for driving with old license plates, George Ludovici was held on additional charges when police learned that he had stolen the car, was AWOL from the Army, had tried to pay for the traffic ticket with a homemade $10 bill...