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...they'll be trickling into town, and lugging their duffle up to Briggs Hall, where the Navy has arranged for them to bunk. Radcliffettes have been prepared with injunctions to "mingle" with the WAVES, over half of Briggs has been emptied for them, and there are rumors that even the plumbing in the Hall has been renovated for their...
...injured Watson was lashed in a bunk, where he chewed aspirin to kill the pain of his broken ribs. The drinking water had salt in it. Food supplies ran short. Cigarets were soaked, so the crew smoked dried tea leaves and fresh coffee rolled in pages torn from the Bluejacket's Manual. The auxiliary engine was useless. It was impossible to sail her. Day after day, a chip in a maelstrom, the 3070 tossed on the heaving Atlantic, battered by soft. waves, driven by the whims of one storm after another...
...Crawford once said no businessman can make a speech because the field "has been abandoned to crackpots, reformers, politicians, nonproductive drones who live on our backs and sway public opinion by silver-tongued fireside bunk." But last week in Manhattan Businessman Crawford ate his earlier words in his maiden speech as N.A.M. president. Said...
...first the correspondents lived in foxholes. When the marines had the situation in hand, the correspondents got a five-bunk tent ("The Press Club") with a luxurious wood floor and a water-bucket shower bath...
...Bunk!" cried Dr. Gannon. "I use alcohol and tobacco moderately myself, and so do 95% of the people. It not only prolongs life but makes it more enjoyable. There is no method that we doctors have that is better to combat fever than a good application of alcohol...