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Captain Mildred McAfee, brisk, athletic, curly-haired head of the WAVES, ardent feminist, suggested that since volunteer lady hostesses "resent" having WAVES, WACs, SPARs and women marines at their servicemen's parties, husbands of hostesses ought to get together and entertain servicewomen. One of her WAVES had told her about one such party, "held in somebody's back yard because they had a swimming pool-it was not an organized thing." Everyone had a good time despite the fact some of the men were old enough to be the girls' fathers...
...gripe No. 1: We have spent 24 months overseas. ... In that time we have been no closer to civilization than Guadalcanal. Understand, we are not complaining; we are just trying to show G.I. Joe that he isn't having too tough a time by a damn sight. We entertain no dreams of prolonged Stateside duty when & if we do return...
Finally arrived at the sanctuary of his club, the professor is seized upon by his closest crony, the District Attorney (Raymond Massey). To entertain Wanley, who seems distracted, the D. A. regales him with the developments of the sensational new murder. Detail by detail the professor is forced to listen to a relentless but far-from-boring reconstruction, from footprints, spots of blood and bits of hair, of the crime he has committed...
...Tree. Joe traveled 150,000 miles, played in jampacked halls, hospitals, gun emplacements, rainy ditches, jungle outposts. Once he climbed Canton Island's sole palm tree to entertain the solitary G.I. on lookout duty. Sometimes Comedian Brown would mutter prayers: "Listen, God, this is your...
...Bloody Circuit. When Soviet plays have gone on the road for the last three years they have gone straight to war. The Red Army Theater, which is typical, has sent 18 "front brigades" to entertain troops. They play in trenches, in forest clearings, in sheds and blockhouses. There have been many casualties: one whole brigade was cut off by the Germans while acting and never heard from again. One troupe worked for seven months without a change of clothes. One group was playing in a shed to 65 Tommy gunners; in a corner was the command post, at which...