Word: canteeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jean Knox knows that it is not enough for women of the A.T.S. to feel they are freeing men for active service, not enough to sit at a teletypewriter, be a clerk in a canteen, help run a searchlight, run errands at headquarters, cook Army meals, work rangefinders, decode messages-not enough to man a military job: they must also occasionally do a job on a military man. Accordingly she wants her women to be as attractive as they are efficient...
Southwest's President Leland Hayward, cinema agent, TWA director and husband of twinkling Margaret Sullavan, gave each man a silver wrist tag. Stockholder Brian Aherne flew in in his Fairchild to see the fun. Stockholder Hoagie Carmichael thumped the piano in the canteen...
...chaplains got less attention from the Army than cooks. Few cantonments had chapels, and chaplains got neither religious equipment nor other assistance. Officers could assign the chaplains to all sorts of chores-tending the canteen, courts-martial, postmaster, athletic or entertainment director, checking up on mess purchases. Many colonels made virtual errand boys of their chaplains...
...touch, and when the southerly wind blasted men and machines with grating dust. German spying was particularly daring. Several Nazis were found in Tobruch in British military-police uniform, and two spies were said to have visited Tobruch's Army and Navy and Air Force Institute (canteen) un spotted...
British War Relief will take the proceeds of a Radcliffe informal dance to be held in the main living room of Agassiz tomorrow night. The sponsors hope to clear enough to help buy a mobile canteen used to feed bombed-out populations of British cities...