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...TIME found out about the Marine who jumped off the train to scrounge a piece of ice from a wagon-and the red-headed sergeant who "noticed" the 40? beer-and the 23-year-old corporal who was so glad to be back he "just lay in his bunk all night grinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

There are five operating tables aboard the Solace. There are six regular wards-all of them with double bunks except the convalescent ward, which has three tiers of bunks for the lighter cases. The wards accommodate 50 to 70 men each. The 40-odd officers bunk four and six to the room. The X ray, the pharmacy and all the assorted medical and surgical equipment are as good as in the best U.S. hospitals. But to the marine or soldier arriving from the battlefield's filth, the most wonderful thing about the Solace is the food. The night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospital Ship | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Gert's poems are bunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genius at Home | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...Talking Coach. The skipper, who got his battered nose "backing up a weak line at Annapolis," indulged in a few periods of silence during that 15 months. But they were mostly when he was in his bunk. In battle and out, he kept up a rapid fire of instruction, reprimand occasional praise. Group Twelve responded to his coaching: the score showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: From the Snare of the Fowler | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...last train out at night, Nuisance made it a practice to bark sharply at all sleepy sailors and tug their sleeves when the train slowed for the base. Nuisance slept, stretched out like a man, in a reserved bunk at Klaver Camp near Simon's Town, or at the Union Jack Club in Capetown, whichever was nearest, when he finished his chores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Dog Story | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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