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...stove on which hot rations were being prepared. . . . There was just one other piece of canvas in the picture. . . . It had a regular outline and apparently was something exceptionally precious, something which even in the circumstances had to be kept dry. We had just picked up our chow and were sitting around miserably starting to eat, when from this piece of canvas came the sound of music. It was strange music. It was jive-American jive. I never did find out whose jive it was, but it was gay, rhythmic, and in no time at all it had us feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Normandy | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...shirts from the windows for recognition signals. The firing only grew heavier. They yelled to cut it out, but their friends could not hear. Then a U.S. paratrooper found a bullet-pierced German bugle. He thrust it out the window. Above the firing rang the shrill familiar notes of "chow call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Chow Call | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

Leader of the Wolf-Pack for this week: Herschel "Measles" Futral. (Or didn't you see him trying to steal Tom Gaines' girl at chow Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 6/13/1944 | See Source »

...contrary, WAVES thrive of plenty of exercise and outdoor life manage to keep in trim despite plenty of Navy chow, and never meet an enemy Jap except behind bars. They could probably throw him for a loop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tell Your Girl to Join, Says WAVE | 5/23/1944 | See Source »

...four occidental fellow-officers dropped ashore to bunk at Henry Meyer's middling Palmerston Hotel. Chow Jockie went to his room, began to unpack. Ten minutes later came a message: the guest must return his key. The Palmerston didn't cater to colored people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Malignant Pigmentation | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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