Word: canteens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stage Door Canteen (Show-business people galore; TIME, June...
Radio has at last made a good thing out of the American institution of the blind date (NBC, Thurs., 8-8:30 p.m., E.W.T.). Six servicemen (usually chosen from a nearby canteen) are paired off before a telephone in NBC's Manhattan studios. Each pair competes for a pretty girl at the other end of the line. Each man's vocal persuasiveness is his only weapon. Boy cannot see girl, and vice versa. She chooses one of the two, and the three winners take their girls to the Stork Club for a full evening of dining and dancing...
Stage Door Canteen (Show-business people galore; TIME, June...
Stage Door Canteen (Show-business people galore; TIME, June...
Beer and Hair Tonic. All POWs are paid a regular allowance, credited to their account or in the cash of the camp: canteen coupons. Enlisted men get 10? a day, another 80? if they work on the camp farms or roads. Lieutenants get $20 a month, captains and majors $30, all ranks above, $40. Afternoons, there is a heavy run on the canteen. The Germans go for 3.2 beer (when available), the Italians for hair tonic. Cokes and ice cream are international favorites...