Word: furlough
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Roll Call. In Philadelphia, James D. Six, one of the six Six boys in the armed forces, came home on furlough. In Dayton, newly recruited to the WACs, was Mrs. Pearl Harbour. In California, James Bottoms applied for transfer from the airborne Engineers to the Submarine Corps...
...Furlough News...
From Mayor Earl Riley, of Portland, Ore., we recently received the following communication: "This office has been advised by the Ninth Service Command that your son ... is expected home on furlough sometime this month. If at any time during his leave I can be of help to him or to you in making his visit pleasant, please let me know...
...Lady. In Atlantic City, WAC Pfc. (Mrs.) Birdie Hyland reported back three days early from a Boston furlough, badly needing to rest up after a meeting with her son Robert, a corporal, also on leave...
Divorce Revealed. Of Navy Chief Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, "The Ghost of Guam"; and Mary Frances Tweed, 27, mother of two; on Aug. 8, six years after their marriage (his first, her second), three weeks after he came home on furlough after 31 months of hide& -seek with Guam's Jap occupation forces, (TIME, Aug. 21); in San Diego, Calif. One of the allegations: she insulted the wives of other servicemen...