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...Russians are very practical. When a soldier comes out of anesthesia, they throw a machine gun in bed with him, and he spends his time taking it apart and putting it together again. There are no Red Cross girls around to rub the backs of the wounded soldiers, no basket weaving...
This Camp Thomas team is embodying a last year's tradition that service basket-ball squads are good teams. With the possible exception of Illinois' "Whiz Kids," the post-Olympic Norfolk Naval Training Station team and the college all-star Great Lakes squad were the best in the nation...
...brigadier general had a face like a sharp ax and a back like a broomstick. He was all that the Academy taught its cadets an officer should be. He had three daughters and one son. In 1915, a live coal fell from a basket-grate in a dining room in the Presidio at San Francisco, set fire to the waxed floors. Pershing's wife and three daughters, Helen, Anne, Mary, were burned to death. All that was left to Brigadier General Pershing was his six-year...
...went to study the language, managed to get himself beaten up and bounced out of a beer hall for uncomplimentary references to Adolf Hitler: "They got me all wrong in that pub." He also met and married 18-year-old Clara Ungerland, blonde, violin-playing daughter of a Cologne basket weaver. She died a month later. O'Nolan returned to Eire, and never mentions...
...last column quite a bit. Let's see if there's anything worth combing out of last week's waste basket . . . A ruling will be made soon on allowances for family travel. $100 additional uniform allowance should appear around three weeks hence. On your next trip to New York, stop at the Commodore Hotel (42 St. & Lexington Ave)--Officers' Service, for best seats to best shows at half price for two, on the night of the performance (before 1900). Free dance invitations and broadcast tickets also available. And, the beautiful quarters of the New York Advertising Club are being used...