Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other causes: in Chicago Mrs. Mae Casey was divorced from a soldier who had taken a second wife in New York, written: "Honey, she got me all hot and bothered." Many a soldier was coming home to find his wife pregnant, or the mother of another man's child...
...bank clerk with what he calls an "author complex." In Whitehorse he was not particularly popular. ("I have never been popular. To be popular is to win the applause of people whose esteem is often not worth the winning.") His one social accomplishment was his recitation of Casey at the Bat, Gunga Din, The Face on the Barroom Floor...
...Chicago Daily News's ace of whimsy, round and jovial Bob (Robert J.) Casey, is no man to sit around waiting for strange and wonderful things to happen. Once, when he heard that a couple of scientists were to climb to a Grand Canyon plateau never before trod by man, he flew over it dropping old whiskey bottles and Ford parts for the amazed scientists to find. More recently, as a roving war correspondent, he has had no trouble finding stories worth reporting...
...years ago Casey wrote a book that disappeared in the censor's office. This year he wrote another. And when the censor finally decided to release the first one, his publishers decided to bring out both at once...
This week buyers had their choice of two Caseys. The two-year-old is Battle Below (Bobbs-Merrill; $3.50), full of the life and color of the men of the submarine service, high-pointed by a hilarious account of the 19 moves it takes to operate a submarine toilet, and what once happened to the German admiral who made the wrong moves and found himself suctioned to the seat. The other book is This Is Where I Came In (Bobbs-Merrill; $3), filled with stories of the British fleet, the Normandy fighting, the final victory. In either case...