Word: furloughs
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...furlough. I'll be going back in two months...
...only is the increased population satirized but the crowded housing conditions are also subjected to fun-poking. The plot concerns an Army officer who comes home on furlough just after his wife has had a blessed event. From then on, complications galore set in and every casual visitor to the household becomes involved. Before the evening is over, the apartment is filled with expectants, while an aged and feeble doctor, who steals the show, tries to cope with their difficulties...
Shirley Temple celebrated her 16th birthday with her first high-heeled shoes, heard Hollywood predictions that her comeback in the forthcoming Since You Went Away will be a smash hit. Her current flame is 17-year-old Dale Harris, who will appear with her in a subsequent film, Double Furlough...
...Provost Marshal's white-helmeted, white-gaitered M.P.s ("Ike's Snowballs") make periodic sweeps of London looking for A.W.O.L.s. They sift Red Cross clubs, dance halls, pubs, hotels and railway stations check dog tags and furlough papers. In one recent six-hour sweep they caught 104 soldiers absent without leave, three of whom were wearing civilian clothes...
...Jersey, Teresa Truax, 19 months, was gravely ill with leukemia. Her father, Sergeant Elmer Truax, was Somewhere in the South Pacific. Only the Commander in Chief of the South Pacific area could approve a furlough, and communications to him must be only on matters of military import. But Mrs. Truax kept trying. Last week she got a letter cold, with official language, warm with hope: The matter was receiving the "attention of the appropriate officials of the War Department." Teresa's mother beamed: "I guess we're getting some action...