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...Department lately conducted an essay contest on "Why I Fight." Last week twelve Army judges, after pondering 300 entries, picked the winners. All three were from New York City-two from Brooklyn alone. First prize went to Corp. Jack J. Zurofsky, 28, of Brooklyn, now recovering from combat wounds. Excerpt...
Meantime toplofty Commissioner Moses got himself into another row. He wrote another letter, this time in answer to the Hempstead (L.I.) Newsday, which had criticized him for denying soldiers free golf privileges at Bethpage State Park. Excerpt: "Experience has shown that most of the servicemen who play golf are officers, who can afford a reasonable fee, and that the average . . . doughboy regards golf as a sport of toffs* and gentlemen and doesn't know a divot from an Attic tomb inscription...
Whether or not this situation was the cause, or whether it was some undisclosed tragedy, we will never know, but "To Her" has been succeeded by a torrent of verse on every conceivable subject and a few inconceivable ones. To illustrate, the following is an excerpt from a "Bolba Special" intitled REPOSE...
...children are running wild and we have no way of checking them except by proper leadership. Delinquency is on the upgrade and we must stop it. To do this we need your help." This is an excerpt from the text of a letter received at Phillips Brooks House yesterday. It was signed by Miss Catherine Orr, headworker at the Trinity Neighborhood House...
...following excerpt (from a letter written to my great uncle) may prove of interest as an "echo" from another...