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Tourists in Uniform. Newspapers are full of talk about Anglo-American understanding and friendship (nobody knows TIME, JANUARY 10, 1944 exactly what to do about it). Oxford and Cambridge are open to American soldiers for study on furlough. People give joint Anglo-American parties, organize clubs and canteens, exchange purring speeches. Some inescapable friction remains. The Americans and the British are getting all mixed up together for war; whether their friendship will survive and last, none can tell...
Incidentally, we must announce with regret the passing of our little friends across the McKinlock Hall quadrangle. The psych boys graduated just before our furlough, much to the terror of the custodian of the Fordham University seismograph...
...left last week, at the end of their term, to get their basic training. These men had entered the A. S. T. before their eighteenth birthdays and, having reached the age of eighteen during the term, they left on December 4. Other Specialist men had a week's furlough last week before starting their new terms...
Sight-seeing tours of the Holy Land, conducted by U.S. Army chaplains, have become so popular among U.S. forces in Cairo that they now have to be booked two to three weeks in advance. In the past 13 months some 3,000 officers, nurses, enlisted men on furlough or convalescent have taken the tours, which cost under...
...tenure as company commander was the longest of any man's thus far--August 32 to September 19. Finger saw the company off on its furlough, and was held over during the reorganization period when the company returned...