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But many more things than enemy flags are dumped on our desks to mark the trail TIME, LIFE & FORTUNE men have followed across the newsfronts of this war - Japanese cigarets and German underwear-ashtrays made from the melted-down metal of Nazi planes which crashed and burned on the ground...
Aleut males shared their wives and money with equal unconcern. Every member of the community received an equal share from the sale (to Husband Thornie's company) of the island's blue-fox pelts, whether or not he had helped in the trapping. Chief Dirks, who invariably retreated...
Poker and Solitude. He was rather a dandy, in a loud way. His favorite sport was poker. He could be a wonderfully entertaining host. William Randolph Hearst loved him. His own close friends were chiefly comic-strip artists - Hershfield, Ru dolph Dirks (The Captain and the Kids}, Jim Swinnerton...
Toward "serious" artists he felt very humble. He used to try painting and, according to Dirks, invariably underestimated his own work. He never got over feeling that his $750-a-week salary was more than he was worth, never got over trying to make each strip a little better than...
In an open Sicilian gully, Hope had his greatest and most grateful audience: 19,000 weary men just back from battle. In exchange for gags like "I led such a sheltered life I didn't go out with girls till I was almost four," the veterans gave him captured...