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...last war. It was on behalf of a fellow infantry squad leader who hauled a wounded MP out of the line of fire while the MP's commanding officer, a major, stood by and watched. For his eyewitnessed act of heroism the major got the award. No foolin...
...ward room, over & over again, they kept playing a recording: They'd Better Have Seven League Boots and Invisible Gabardines When They're Foolin' With the Marines . . . Wiry Captain Sam Jaskilka, 30, from Ansonia, Conn., a onetime University of Connecticut basketball star, a Marine veteran who fought through World War II's Pacific campaign, laughed nervously at the song. "I hope the enemy believes that," he said as he sipped a cup of coffee...
...signal flag was hoisted on the Commodore's ship meaning "Enemy Aircraft Approaching." Crowmen patiently waited for the mistake to be corrected. In less than two minutes the flag was hanled down, but another took its place, the "Attack Imminent" signal. Everyone waited for the "We're Just Foolin" model, but it never came...
Like most of his confreres, Cowboy Carney rodeos ten months of the year, travels by auto, likes pool & poker, spends his two months' vacation "foolin' round," seldom wears "civvies," is "scared of bulls" (in spite of the fact that steer riding is his specialty), earns about $6,000 a year, expects to retire at 35. But unlike most career cowboys, he does not plan to buy a cattle ranch when his bucking days are over. Instead, he hopes to run either a nightclub or a dude ranch. "I can get along with dudes," says he. "All you have...
...called, "The National Whirl gig." At the time of the Tercentenary, when even the most crabbed of Boston reporters were lulled into amiability by Harvard's antiquity and learning, one columnist gave birth to a unique interpretation of the exercises in the Yard. It appears under the straightforward, no-foolin' title, "Out in the Rain...