Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After surviving the hazards of floating mines, surface raiders, and dive bombers on a convey to Murmansk, seaman Winthrop Haskell is back in Cambridge studying to be a third mate. Souvenirs of his seven-month voyage are the current drawing card at the Russian War Relief headquarters on Dunster Street...
...called up by his draft board, inducted, sent to Fort MacArthur. He burned his civilian clothes, tore up his draft card, drilled for 35 days with other Army rookies. Then Army officers discovered his name was not on their rolls. Despite all his protestations that he was no stowaway, he was dismissed...
With borrowed clothes, he started back to civilian life. Police picked him up, found he had no draft card, tossed him in jail, called...
After a ten-day visit with friends, Hélion set off for Unoccupied France, using a forged identity card. He crossed the border by crawling in the snow between two guards, reached Vichy and reported to Vichy police. Says Hélion: "I was very well received by them." After he had been deloused, sent to a demobilization camp for escaped prisoners, the authorities gave Hélion full pay for his 21 months' captivity. The delighted French War Ministry presented him with 2,000 francs. They also gave him permission to leave France...
Novelist Vance, who has "never lived in any one place longer than two years," envies writers who write in "lovely quiet places in the woods with purling brooks." She says: "I've had to do my writing on the edges of card tables, on trains, in boarding houses. I seem to be able to write best in places like China where the entire household wanders in and out and there's a mob howling at the gates...