Word: furloughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Technical Sergeant William L. Brown of De Witt, Ark., it all began in New Guinea, where the 32nd Division commander badly needed a Jap prisoner to question, and promised a furlough as payment. Brown scurried off into the bush, brought back a live Jap, spent his leave in Australia and got married there...
...understand about the Old School Tie [TIME, May 7], but what the heck is a Rotary Club? Is it a policeman's stick, a society of egg beaters, or a group of soldiers waiting for a furlough...
...Rizzitello had fought in Africa, Sicily, Italy and France. He wore a Purple Heart, a Presidential unit citation (the 3rd Division's), battle stars for six campaigns. On his furlough to the U.S. this spring he had taken a wife; he had made his farewell the day he went to Dix to get on with...
...first to walk in Ward 108 was Private First Class Harry Sanders, 24, who was hurt at Saint-LÔ last summer when a bomb exploded 5 ft. behind him. Almost completely paralyzed from the waist down, blue-eyed Private Sanders went home to Marysville, Pa. on furlough last month, hopped proudly around the house on his braces, laid plans to return to civilian life as a radio mechanic...
...politically leftish daughter of the house, Virginia, who had been running the place ever since she ran away from her dull and snobbish husband. In one of the bedrooms lay Virginia's once-beautiful mother-an invalid whose sickness no doctor could diagnose. Home on furlough was son Vaughan, an R.A.F. squadron leader whose bombing forays over Germany had filled him with disgust and disillusionment. Orchilly's permanent guests were a Polish refugee pastrycook with a wife, a child, and a hereditary stomach ailment ("My motter die of vormce...