Word: furloughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Sergeant Harry Myrand of Brooklyn, N.Y., most had been in the lines, under fire, when they heard the incredible news: picked men of the First, Third, Seventh and Ninth U.S. Armies-decorated veterans all-were going home on 30-day furlough...
...already returning from the war, badly needs saying to American civilians. The picture's crucial weakness: it confronts its fumbling, humiliated, pitiful soldier Zack (Joseph Cotten) with a girl (Ginger Rogers) who, instead of being reasonably average, is also a decidedly special case. Zack is on Christmas furlough from an Army psychiatric hospital; Mary is on Christmas furlough from a penitentiary...
This will be Harvard's first boxing match of the year and to date no more have been scheduled. Before the furlough period all fisticuffs were restricted to the class in boxing and the present squad has been practicing as a team only during the last two weeks...
...Built Up. A new arrival is usually tired, fed up with the war and the Army. He thinks that no one, least of all a civilian, can understand what he has endured. He dreads civilian life. (The 15-day furlough some men get before treatment often makes them uneasier than ever...
...Bronx, reported that he had lost his watch when a jewelry repair store was robbed, his uniform when the cleaners burned down, one of his medals to a thief on the train, his garrison cap, which he left in the baggage rack; found that he had returned from furlough a day early...