Word: commando
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...Colorado Commando. In Grand Junc tion, Colo., Herbert Krueger rushed to the aid of Russian guerrillas as they walked into a Nazi machine-gun trap, let out a bloodthirsty yell just as the cinema screen collapsed over his head, was fined $25 for disturbing the peace...
...room of a shack on Pittsburgh's gritty North Side. He sat down, and with grave deliberation pulled off his boots, then broke out a plug of tobacco. "First chance I've had for a good chew since I got back," he said. Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly was home...
This heart-warming moment was an instant of quiet in three days of hubbub and hero worship which began as soon as his seven brothers (six in uniform) pummeled a welcome on his back at the airport. "Commando" quickly settled one point in the hubbub: whether the dilapidated alley home was a fit place for a returning Congressional Medal of Honor winner. (City officials had first offered a new apartment, then engaged a $55-a-day suite at the William Penn Hotel when they learned that the Kelly home had no electric lights, no bathroom plumbing and little paint.) Said...
...after one night at home, with his boots off, his chew of tobacco, and his brothers celebrating over beer in the kitchen, "Commando" and family transferred temporarily to the William Penn. There followed parades, gifts, interminable speeches by civic officials, a night appearance in a local park with 10,000 fans pushing through police lines, a tour of the city in an open Packard. From the sidelines the hero could hear shrieking girls awarding the ultimate in bobbysock tributes: "He's nicer than Frankie...
Through it all Commando Kelly remained calm but not displeased. At week's end he had sold his life story to the Saturday Evening Post for $15,000 and movie rights to a story about his family for $25,000. He sank the $15,000 into a trust fund for his mother, and arranged to buy her a house...