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Returning from a seven-day furlough between terms, the unit of ASTP trainees will begin the long grind of classes this week. The ASTP unit finds itself reduced in number by the loss of the company of 17-year-old army reservists. Transferred out, most of the reservists will soon find themselves going through the paces of basic training...
Volunteers working under the Red Cross, have made 90 per cent of all dressings used by the armed forces. Commercial plants, overburdened by war work, cannot begin to do this job. Instead of being considered a leisure time activity, making dressings is now an urgent necessity...
...Indies" was puny, as carrier raids go nowadays: less than 100 planes, hardly one Essex-class complement. But there were promising factors: 1) for the first time Naval forces from the Mountbatten, Nimitz and MacArthur commands joined together; 2) Javanese, who have been wooed incessantly by Japanese propaganda, might begin to doubt that Tojo's forces were as all-powerful as he claimed; 3) surprisingly few Jap planes rose in defense; two of these were shot down, 19 others were destroyed on the ground; at least one ship in Surabaya harbor blew...
Last week it was calculated that Faust had topped the combined output of E. Phillips Oppenheim, J. S. Fletcher, Edgar Wallace and all those who wrote as Nick Carter. More Faustiana remained: the Saturday Evening Post will shortly begin his romantic serial, After April; scheduled for the August Argosy is a short story, By Their Works. Friends said that Faust was in the middle of a Civil War novel when he sailed to Italy...
Cheyenne's dilapidated, frame-built West End district* was a wide-open haven for girls, gambling and guzzling until last summer, when Army authorities from nearby Fort Francis E. Warren cracked down. Sin spots went under cover, which meant they had to begin buying protection. Soldiers (mostly Negroes) from Fort Warren still had a million-a-month payroll to blow. In sleazy backroom dives, blackjack stakes ran as high as $200 a game. Nightspots bootlegged whiskey because they could not get liquor franchises, limited in Cheyenne to 20 a year and unofficially valued at $50,000 each. Negro service...