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...Army outfit that is celebrated neither for its morale nor for its soldierly qualities is the 44th Division (New York and New Jersey National Guard) stationed at Fort Dix, N.J. It has been the focus of many stories of unruly action, such as mass grousing over Army pay, breaking windows to show displeasure...
What was wrong with the 44th was a question the U.S. Army would have to answer. Interesting in this connection last week was a letter written to a friend by one of the 624,000 draftees in the U.S. Army (not stationed at Dix...
...night last week, sergeants' whistles shrilled in Fort Dix. By midnight, trucks and guns were rumbling past the flat Jersey fields; by noon the 44th Division (New York and New Jersey National Guard) was well south of Washington...
...Jersey's Fort Dix went Billy Rose with two big exhibition trucks bor rowed from General Motors' "road show" Parade of Progress. One truck opened out into an 18-by-20-foot stage with a green sequin curtain. The other truck was loaded with Fort Dix's Reception Center band, including hot ex-Broadway syncopators...
...took 20 Fort Dix workers and electricians less than 15 minutes to set up the stage and a mobile public-address system. Following an afternoon's rehearsal, Billy Rose rolled around Fort Dix, in one evening gave three fast 40-minute revues to a total Army audience...