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Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, Pittsburgh's rugged redhead who won the Congressional Medal of Honor near Altavilla (TIME, March 20), began a 90-day tour of U.S. Army camps, after making a confession: "Being a hero is the bunk. I wish I was going across...
William E. Woodward is the man who coined the word "debunk." In 1923, when he was a Hearst promotion manager, he used the word in a best-selling first novel called Bunk. He followed it up with two debunking biographies: George Washing ton and Meet General Grant, and his New American History, which debunked traditional U.S. history...
...what scoundrels those Army boys must be to have earned such punishment. Their's has been a bunk padder's fate, and we can offer little consolation. As you know, the mess hall was named for the former Admiral of the Supply Corps who "banished salt horse and cracker hash from the high seas." We will glady rename it for you boys in khaki if you can get the menu changed at Cowie Hall. In the meantime, we'll understand if, in your weakened condition, your vocal work is a little less fervent, your cadence not quite so thick...
...British Medical Research Union was optimistic about the new treatment. But doctors at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital who had never heard of Hosa Laboratories or Researcher Thompson, were skeptical. Said one doctor: "Pure bunk." But he admitted a bare possibility that there might be something to H 11. Even specialists have little idea where the eventual answer to cancer will be found...
...four occidental fellow-officers dropped ashore to bunk at Henry Meyer's middling Palmerston Hotel. Chow Jockie went to his room, began to unpack. Ten minutes later came a message: the guest must return his key. The Palmerston didn't cater to colored people...