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...girls who turned out to entertain the boys were San Antonio's Liberty Belles, who have volunteered to bolster morale by acting as dates for lonesome draftees. The Liberty Belles are organized along semimilitary lines; four girls take orders from a corporal, three corporals from a sergeant, five sergeants from a lieutenant. On the ground that few enlisted men, however lonely, would enjoy stepping out with a lieutenant, that rank is limited to older Belles, who mobilize the girls at San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium, whence they are dispatched by bus to the scene of operations: the Army...
...years ago he found it convenient to live in London's St. Pancras Hospital. At no, when World War II began, he took singing lessons again "in order to entertain the soldiers, since they won't let me fight." Sometimes he found it helpful to wear spectacles. His hair began to grey. Said he: "I smoke, drink and stay up late and always shall...
Every afternoon shortly after 1, a crowd of sleepy-eyed "town girls," "call girls," "party girls," juke-joint dames and dance-hall hostesses gather at No. 513½ Dolorosa St., in San Antonio, Tex. They are girls who entertain many of the 30,000 soldiers at nearby Fort Sam Houston and Randolph Field. But no bawdy house is No. 513½: it is a free clinic where a group of experts are trying a practical new solution for the old problem of venereal disease and the army. Last week an enterprising reporter from the New York Daily News named Carl...
There are five such castles in Germany; a student spends a year in each one. He must study Nazi ideology, languages, history, skiing, riding, golf, other social graces, must learn to fly. Near each castle is a girls' center whose sole function is to entertain the boys...
...prepare its defense, is more like an American than a Dutchman. Not only does he speak English, with an American accent, he plays golf and smokes Camels. He has a town house in Batavia and a country house not far away, where he and his charming Dutch wife often entertain visiting diplomats and journalists. Among their close friends are U.S. Consul General Walter A. Foote and his wife...