Word: canteens
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Major Milton R. Knight of San Angelo, Tex. had just parachuted from an exploding B-29 off the Marianas. His life jacket would not inflate. Exquisitely balancing the principles of survival and buoyancy, Knight drank half the water in his canteen, poured out the rest, stoppered it and tied it to his belt. It was still helping him float more than three hours later when a Navy surface vessel picked...
...jumped with three cameras and a canteen of Scotch and I pointed out to myself that the canteen was very important. The other guys jumped out yelling 'Umbriago!' which is what you yell now, but I was yelling 'one thousand' because if your parachute does not open you are to yell 'one thousand, two thousand, three thousand' before you pull the string. The moment between your jump and land is 24 hours in any man's life. I had time to figure out six or seven things before I hit-one thing...
...G.I.s, a wintry, curfewed Paris seemed much gayer last week: up near the Arc de Triomphe a Stage Door Canteen -or Cabaret des Troupes Alliées-had opened and was going full blast. Inside a day or two, in fact, it was frantically yelling for more hostesses, and the orchestra, plagued by boys who wanted to dance every second, was already dying on its derri...
...Canteen's gala opening had been more Irish than French-it lasted three nights. The first night, a sort of benefit running to diamonds rather than dog tags, was the biggest social event in Paris since the liberation. In a whirl of color, General Joseph-Pierre Koenig, the British Ambassador and Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Prince Achille Murat. Lucien Lelong and a host of other celebrities drank champagne at $30 a bottle, netted the Canteen almost...
...royally booed by the boys from Brooklyn, then conquered even them with Mad Dogs and Englishmen. But it was greying, ingratiating Maurice Chevalier, with his bawdy wisecracks and old U.S. song hits, who pulled the roof down. When the band struck up the same exit-tune the Canteen plays in Manhattan -Good Night, Sweetheart-the boys balked at leaving. They had finally found just what they wanted-something both redolent of Paris and reminiscent of home...