Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society will hold its annual spring pep rally tonight. The card will feature an eight man free-for-all bout between four rabid copy-boys for PM and Princeton's 1944 polo team. Vag will referee. High tea and blintzes will be served between rounds and shillelaghs may be checked at the door. No cover, no minimum...
Private Cain. In New York, 32-year-old Hitchhiker William J. Cain was stopped by a State Trooper, asked to show his draft card. When it was not forth coming, questions were asked, and the trooper found that Cain had been arrested eleven times in 31 months by the New Haven police, who had never discovered that he had been absent from his Army base without leave since three months before Pearl Harbor...
...only by the gentle purrings of busy typewriters until Cross and Crowtner breezed up with those two young ladies in the Pontiac. For two sweet things who were merely "looking for a fellow in D-46," they certainly got to know the regiment. It must have been their "C" card...
...most spectacular officer impersonator was another private first class who went A.W.O.L. two days after landing in Britain. Gradually he acquired (by stealing) a complete officer's outfit, including captain's bars, gloves, an A.G.O. card. He wore Eagle Squadron wings as well as U.S. wings, and the ribbons that blazed from his chest included the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with three clusters and the British Distinguished Flying Medal...
...nation's nearly 900 radio stations went a post card announcing that the Vice President was to make an important speech in New York City, that a recorded transcript to be broadcast locally could be had for the asking. No less than 569 stations flatteringly responded. The $1,200 cost of the records, the New York Herald Tribune learned, was borne by an unnamed friend of Mr. Wallace. Listeners to both speech and record noted that they had been significantly tailored to their respective audiences. Omitted for Waldorf-Astoria listeners, for example, was a recorded assertion that "the present...