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Willie and Joe were citizen soldiers. Before their incarnation, they had presumably been peaceful citizens. Now they were veterans of war's hardships, its filth, discomforts and agonizing boredom. War was bad weather and soaking clothes, cold rations and no letters from home. War was mile after mile of tramping, getting just as tired advancing as retreating, sleeping in barns, bathing in icy rivers, scrounging for small comforts...
...first great test of the men-and the bravura sequence of the picture-confronts them unexpectedly, en route to North Africa, when their ship is torpedoed. They pass the test because they have become, almost unknowingly, trained and efficient soldiers. It is much later, after a stretch of pure boredom, that they meet their first hand-to-hand test as warriors. As they advance toward it, bayonets fixed, the picture ends...
Imaginative, 52-year-old Dr. Stearns was typical of the group. One of his first jobs, when he was in the Solomons with the Thirteenth Air Force, was to find out what was ailing pilots and ground-crewmen. His verdict: acute boredom. His effective remedy: gardening, classes about the natives, flora & fauna, geology...
...Brazilian delegation got no tickets for the opening. The flag flown for Lebanon was wrong. Britain's sprightly Ellen Wilkinson had hoped to buy kitchenware, discovered that she would be unable to carry the extra weight by air, and settled for rayon stockings. The French complained of boredom. A secretary from the French consulate tried to scare up some French-speaking dinner and dancing partners among the women employes of the City of Paris department store...
...students took the Omaha ushering course, learning their art from practical experts. At their commencement last week, the principal speaker was earnest, efficient A. & P. Sales Manager J. S. Handy. Every Sunday as head usher at Des Moines' Westminster Presbyterian Church, he "competes with the Devil" of congregational boredom...