Word: doughboy
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...haven't worn nearly so well. Harpo, once the rage of several continents, has just finished a series of television commercials for a milk company; Chico does his hoary piano routine and Eyetalian dialect around nightclubs; Gummo, who quit the act for good to become a World War I doughboy, is his brothers' agent Zeppo, now out of show business altogether, manufactures airplane parts...
John Rice, a Winnebago whose Indian name is Walking in Blue Sky, loved his native land and was more than willing to fight for it. He enlisted in the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor, served 40 months in the Pacific. There, as a doughboy in the 32nd Infantry Division, he was wounded in battle, contracted malaria, won the Bronze Star. After the war, he went back to the reservation at Winnebago, Neb., but soon re-enlisted as a Regular Army man. Last September, serving as a rifleman with the ist Cavalry Division above Taegu in Korea, Sergeant John Rice...
...during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, he charged a German strong point, singlehandedly killed 19 enemy machine gunners (shot 17, pickaxed two after his pistol jammed), so earned his Medal of Honor and a ringing tribute from General Pershing: "Here is America's greatest doughboy...
...Banks, and how he became a remnant of his former self during the months just before his daughter's marriage, is the subject of the newest book by Edward Streeter, Manhattan banker and author of such occasional studies of U.S. types as Dere Mable (the World War I doughboy) and Daily Except Sundays (the harassed commuter). Father is one of the best of the Streeter studies: a simple-sentence, large-print piece of summer reading, as easy to absorb as sunshine...
...went to France as an infantry major. Between wars, he taught infantry tactics at Fort Benning, served in Maine, San Diego, the Canal Zone. Of his classmates, a dozen or more had won stars while Van Fleet was still a chicken colonel. But he prided himself on being a "doughboy," ran the obstacle course with his men and beat them at rifle marksmanship...