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...hospital near Tokyo. Two weeks later they sent him home to Bayonne, NJ. A lot of people asked him would he do it again-enlist if he knew what was ahead? Said Stan Popko: "I guess I would. I can't see myself spending my life as a counterman or hanging around streetcorners...
Food for Thought. In Manhattan, Counterman Max Levine told customers who ordered Russian dressing: "In this delicatessen, Russian dressing is now MacArthur sauce...
...morning, 22-year-old William McGinnis came driving toward the plant in his 1937 Ford sedan; it was his first day of work as dishwasher in the plant cafeteria. With him was Victor McDaniel, a cafeteria counterman. When McGinnis reached the union's roadblocks, he swung off the road and skittered across a field of rye. Rifles and shotguns roared from the embankment. "The noise was awful," said McGinnis. "We heard the bullets hitting and then my neck went numb." There were 47 holes in the right side of the car. McDaniel, struck twice in the head and also...
...being, Japan's plain people were still not mainly concerned with the road to democracy; they worried-like people in the best regulated societies-about the road that would lead them to the 'biggest bowl of rice. In a Tokyo saloon last week Mikizo Kawahara, an unemployed counterman, said: "It's useless to talk to me about democracy and new ideals-get me a job first!" A bearded grocer near by put down his cup of watered sake and nodded: "Life here," he said, "is like trying to do business in a prison without bars...
...Jersey, part-time Counterman Peter Chenes started violently when $20,000 hit him. "I refuse to get excited," he declared. "But if a guy asks for a cheeseburger, and I feel like giving him a hamburger, he gets hamburger...