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Have you heard about the member of the British 'Wavy Navy' who came to port recently and couldn't understand understand when he called the barracks of our Wave (y) Navy and was told he couldn't bunk there for the night...
...will not be an easy farewell we say to Radcliffe and to Cambridge. We have had a memorable two and a half months which none of us will over forget. We'll be a long time out of the Navy before we forget the girl who slept in the bunk beneath us, or our company commander with the pleasant smile, or the platoon leader who even said "Hup" with a southern accent, or the gal who played all the practical jokes and then had to have her ribs taped up when she played ball just a little too vigorously...
...will not be an easy farewell we say to Radcliffe and to Cambridge. We have had a memorable two and a half months which none of us will over forget. We'll be a long time out of the Navy before we forget the girl who slept in the bunk beneath us, or our company commander with the pleasant smile, or the platoon leader who even said "Hup" with a southern accent, or the gal who played all the practical jokes and then had to have her ribs taped up when she played ball just a little too vigorously...
...regard to the article "The Army's Stomach" [TIME, Feb. 15] I would like to say a few words. According to the recent survey hots dogs are the soldiers' favorite meat. This, gentlemen, is absolutely "bunk." . . . Every time we have hot dogs the soldiers wail and groan. . . . The only reason we eat hot dogs is because they're served to us so often...
...citation: for bravery in leading and inspiring Chinese troops under fire in Burma last April. Then "Little Joe" stepped forward. Little Joe is Lieut. Colonel Joseph Stilwell Jr., 30-year-old assistant chief of Intelligence on his father's staff. The general fidgeted. "Who brought up all this bunk?" he whispered. "Stand still," Little Joe hissed, and pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on the chest of his father...