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...prospect of death he learned to ac cept, and he seldom talked about it. But he could gripe about the hardships. Each echelon claimed that the men to the rear were "fat" with luxuries. The man on the line envied the man at battalion because he usually slept on a cot and lived in a tent and had three hot meals a day. Battalion thought regiment "had it made" because there the men rode around in jeeps. The soldier assigned to regiment wished he was farther back at division, where it was safer, where there were showers, Korean houseboys...
...others are there, too--Albert the Alligator, Porky, who "don't like anybody 'cept one crittur whom I dislikes less than most," Churchy la Femme, Howlin' Owl, Deacon Mushrat, the Rackety Coon Chile, and the rest of the too-human animals that people the South's fairest swamplands...
...ones you find in our U.S. edition. Many of them (and there were 2,792 pages of them in our four International editions last year) are directed towards supplying the needs of war-torn or economically undeveloped areas, and almost always they offer their wares by selling the con cept as hard as the product. They sell insecticides, antibiotics and pharmaceutical products, for instance, by selling American standards of health; they sell trucks, petroleum products, road-building equipment and automotive replacement parts by selling American standards of transportation; they sell agricultural equipment by selling American standards of food productivity; they...
...weekly gross on Lucasta ($21,000) has hardly varied a quarter a week since the play hit Broadway, and Artkino wants him to bring the show to Moscow - an offer which he plans to ac cept as soon as the New York audiences begin to fall off. At the same time he is enjoying too much freedom and making too much money as a partner in King Bros. Productions, an independent unit with Monogram, to have to feel that his position, for the time being, is im provable. "We are making A stories on a C budget," he explains...
...afar: they had taken an oath at Christmas time not to bathe until Dday. They cooked their own meals over campfires, slept on the ground without blanket or tent. Familiarized with jujitsu and dirty-fighting tactics devised by thugs of all nations, they feared no man on earth ex cept the few white officers who could lick them in hand-to-hand combat (barring knives, garrotes and guns). Among these were their own jumpmaster, a handsome golden-haired lieutenant who used to sell insurance, and their colonel, a 1938 West Pointer. When their C-47 troop carrier took...