Word: desmond
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These figures are probably conservative: New York State estimates 20 such deaths a month. About 2,000,000 sleeping pills are sold every day in the U.S., mostly on doctors' prescription, but a good many of them are bootlegged by unscrupulous druggists. Last week State Senator Thomas C. Desmond announced a bill to make it as hard to buy sleeping pills in. New York State as to buy narcotics...
...bravest man-of-the-week on Okinawa-at least to the 77th Infantry Division-was a conscientious objector: Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, 26, Medical Corpsman and Seventh-day Adventist...
Last week Sergeant Desmond-variously known as the "G.I. Sinatra" and "The Creamer," because of his smooth, creamy baritone-was getting fan mail in three languages: English, German and French. Restrained sample from a French admirer: "C'est formidable. . . . It is an experience very moving. I pray you to permit my felicitations...
...Crosby and Gene Krupa. Then he signed up as a drummer-the Army does not admit "singer" as a musical classification-with Glenn Miller's Air Forces Band. (Major Miller has been missing since a December England-to-Paris flight, but the band continues to bear his name.) Desmond's G.I. job, which he is apparently doing sensationally well, is singing. His I'll Be Seeing You and Long Ago and Far Away, in phonetic French, makes young Parisians jump up & down, squeal "Bravo . . . Bis! Bis!" and clutter up the stage-door alley for a closer look...
...entertainer who is creating such a multilingual stir, Sergeant Desmond is modesty itself. When he sang for the 101st Airborne Division, his appreciative audience presented him with a complete paratrooper's outfit and honorary membership in the division. Johnny is especially pleased about the G.I. reaction: "I used to be afraid the real soldiers wouldn't like me," he says, "but they don't seem to mind me being a swooner." The band's publicity-minded program director, Warrant Officer Paul Dudley, says with boding triumph: "Sinatra is apt to push; The Creamer just bides...