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...tall and feathery words, an ecstatic esthete in the New Republic called it "New York's most important musical event of several decades." The music of Bunk Johnson was not as good as all that, but by last week it had become Manhattan's undiscovered hot jazz sensation of the year...
Curran's Case. An ordinary seaman on the Atlantic-plying Liberty ship makes $82.50 a month base pay (for a 56-hour week) plus board & bunk. Until last weekend his war-risk bonus was at least 100% of his base pay. If the ship entered a danger area, he got an area bonus (about $25), and a port-attack bonus (about $10). Take-home pay of all its members, N.M.U. conservatively said, has averaged $50 weekly...
...about two seconds no hand showed, nobody spoke. Then a man in the rear of the room spoke up. He said: "No, no, we have had enough of the Nazis. And all the stories you tell now of having been forced into the party are so much bunk. I never belonged to it. Many others did not. Take Herr Hanzel-gruber, for example. He never joined and he would not make a bad mayor. As long as I have anything to do with this village, no Nazi will ever belong to the administration if I can help it." There were...
...long dim room full of murmurs and movements of figures in all kinds of clothes, from the striped uniform of Buchenwald to just a sack draped over bony shoulders. The walls were lined with bunks built right up to the ceiling. The 1,500 slept four, six or eight or any number to a bunk. When it was really crowded, men slept on top of each other and the ones on the bottom, like as not, were dead of suffocation in the morning...
Totting up, the League ladies found that 50 of those questioned had never heard of the Dumbarton Oaks world-security plan, 44 were for it, two against, two neutral. Said one of the aginners: "It's the bunk. The trouble is Russia...