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...began in the busy mind of Benjamin Kram, onetime numbers racketeer (in Pittsburgh) and taxi driver (in Miami) who decided that there must be better ways of going beyond his $17-a-month Government check for partial (10%) service disability. With his brothers Henry and Max he founded the Ex-G.I. Plastics Co., and soon they were going beyond at the startlingly successful rate of about $18,000 gross a week. Gimmick: the Krams crammed cheap plastic crucifixes into envelopes with letters asking $1 aid for a partially disabled vet, mailed them by the hundreds of thousands to Catholic...
Humbert's would-be child bride is stolen from him by a playwright with an Aztec Red convertible. When Humbert sees Lolita again she is a post-nymphet 17, pregnant and married to a wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...
...urge to leave is heightened by his own bout of illness (a nonmalignant throat growth) and his wife's poor health. Summerfield will regard his Post Office service less than satisfactory if he leaves before achieving fiscal balance in the deficit-dogged postal system. In line to succeed ex-G.O.P. National Chairman Summerfield: ex-G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall...
Between Tsinan, an industrial city in the Chinese province of Shantung, and the Mississippi valley of the U.S.A. lie 8,000 miles, an ocean, half a continent-and an ideological infinity. One dark, rainswept night last week, two ex-G.I.s of the Korean war completed the long journey between those points. For Arlie Howard Pate, 25, the trip ended near Carbondale, Ill.; for Aaron P. Wilson, 24, it was over at Urania...
...campuses. Under the "Korean" G.I. Bill, veterans who served in the armed services between June 27, 1950 and Jan. 31, 1955 are entitled to G.I. educational privileges, and the Veterans Administration estimates that some 750,000 will be enrolled this fall in U.S. colleges and universities. The ex-G.I. of World War II has virtually disappeared, leaving only a few survivors finishing out their courses. But because of him, U.S. higher education will never be quite the same again...