Word: canteens
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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...
Recruit. In Camp Edwards, Mass., a recruit was discovered who had been taking all his meals at the canteen lunch bar because "on $21 a month I couldn't possibly afford to eat in the mess hall...