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...Virginia military prep school, and he arrives in England, assigned to an evacuation hospital, the most foul and fouled-up outfit in the U.S. Army. He is young, brave, idealistic, but his comrades beat all that out of him until one day, in France, he goes AWOL to fight with a rifle at the front. Thereupon he discovers he is not a courageous man. Instead of accepting this as a not unusual fact, young Shelby is full of shame. Before long, he is stealing penicillin to pay a tart, and is on his way Stateside to a psychiatric hospital. Cruelty...
...physician, "bordered on genius." After one year of high school, Jack went off to Anchorage, Alaska, to stay with Helen and her husband, a construction worker. After a few months, however, he joined the Coast Guard, lying about his age (he was 16). After nine months, including 63 days AWOL, he was discharged as a minor. In January 1950, he was back in Denver. The next year he went to work for a manufacturer of trailer-truck equipment as a $200-a-month payroll clerk. A month later, Graham stole a batch of company checks, forged the name...
...square miles of desert scrublands northeast of San Diego, and keep in 885 grey-uniformed men who have been sentenced for a set term in the U.S. Naval Retraining Command-the Navy's equivalent of a reformatory. Be havior problems one and all, the men have gone AWOL, committed thefts or sexual offenses, assaulted superiors or somehow violated one of the hundreds of "Rocks and Shoals" (Navy Regulations). In their state of military purgatory they run through a routine of work details, formations, exercise and orientation lectures. When their time is up (average: six months), about half go back...
Elementary. In Milwaukee, Veteran Cops Franklin A. Smith and Franklin F. Berg took - Rookie Cop Leo S. Markowski out to show him how to question suspicious persons, picked out two soldiers who happened to be wandering by, promptly drew admissions from them that they were AWOL from Fort Ord, had committed burglaries in Las Vegas, Denver and Nebraska, had a gun hidden in a nearby alley for use in a planned filling-station holdup...
Away from a battle zone, Dowling felt AWOL, but in April 1945 he took time out to marry his Chicago editor's secretary, Patricia Louise Shafer, after an eight-day courtship. They had one child, Gordon, now two years...