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...great majority of the boys here are sending most of their money home for the purchase of war bonds and to guarantee a secure future when they do return. In fact, the old cry that war ruins men is a lot of bunk as far as I have been able to observe. I believe that the soldiers here are more sober, thriftier, and go to church more than an equal number of civilians do. If a man comes through combat without physical harm I believe that he will be a much better man than he was before the Army service...
...Melendes had been arrested three nights earlier in a raffish nightclub (one with women hostesses and rooms upstairs). He had admitted his part in a $40 robbery. His cell mate and partner in the crime, Andrew Brinkley, testified at the perfunctory in quest that Melendes had fallen off his bunk, cracked his head on the concrete floor. The coroner's verdict: death caused by kidney disease and congestion of the brain...
Concerning watch duty members of the Senior Class will stand watches as often as required, but will probably always be assigned the duties of Battalion Duty Officer. Consequently, they may bunk in the Duty Office on Watch nights...
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...Francisco, Harry Bridges, fiery, Australian-born longshoremen's union leader, was pleased to announce that under his auspices fellow jazz addicts could now regularly hear the resurrected, 63-year-old New Orleans trumpeter Willie ("Bunk") Johnson and other barrelhouse veterans who played with him at a San Francisco jazz concert in May (TIME, May 24). Time: every Sunday afternoon. Place: the C.I.O. hall. Admission: six bits and a membership card in the Hot Jazz Society. Said Bridges: "That Bunk is an American institution...