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Strictly speaking, Joe Suk shouldn't have been on the front at all. After almost two years of continuous fighting he had just got his first ten-day furlough ticket so that he could go back to his village to marry a childhood sweetheart. Charlie Company had sent the hat round and collected $250 for Joe, and issued him a mock-formal order: "Have a good time." A Katusa (Korean attached to U.S. troops) and thereby not eligible for rotation, he had been up to the Yalu and back again with the Wolfhounds, fighting, said one G.I., "with...
...servicemen sons; they flooded him with pies, cakes, homemade candy, books. When he wrote wistfully that he wished he had "a teaspoonful of Texas soil to put under my pillow at night," he got nearly a truckload, packed in small envelopes. But when Reed was home on a furlough, City Editor Johnston diplomatically asked him when he thought he might be going overseas...
Even so, there will still be some rather choice amenities for the conquerors. The U.S. Army intends to hang on to Bavaria's two best ski resorts - Garmisch and Berchtesgaden-which it seized for furlough centers. Some of Germany's choicest hunting grounds, forbidden to the vanquished for the past six years, will still be reserved for American sportsmen hankering after a bit of pheasant, roebuck or rabbit...
...after five months abroad, she planned to turn temporarily from gallivanting-although not simply to rest. She had to hurry East, to entertain her old friend, Queen Juliana of Holland, and then, after settling down at Hyde Park, she had to dictate her book. She planned nothing but a furlough. As long as she has the strength, Eleanor Roosevelt will be laboring over the horizon, shaking hands energetically with reception committees and discovering hopeful evidence of a better world to come...
Semifinal Round. In Gaffney, S.C., a soldier home on furlough filed applications with Probate Judge W. R. Douglas to marry four girls, said he would make the crucial choice later...