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...will over forget. We'll be a long time out of the Navy before we forget the girl who slept in the bunk beneath us, or our company commander with the pleasant smile, or the platoon leader who even said "Hup" with a southern accent, or the gal who played all the practical jokes and then had to have her ribs taped up when she played ball just a little too vigorously. We'll long remember the ten-to-eleven hour in the living, room the manufactured senttlebutt-always better than the real thing--the coming home after dates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMY CHAPLAINS | 3/26/1943 | See Source »

...fooling either. By the time this goes to press some of us will know where the powers-that-be have seen fit to distribute our various talents. We will have cancelled plane reservations, or made new ones; some will be stocking up on bathing suits (that lucky gal who gets Miami!) while others will be scanning railroad maps carefully with an eye towards finding out how many hundreds of miles from a city of 100,000 their particular little haven is located. Yes, the WAVES are off to sea--or a reasonably exact facsimile thereof...

Author: By Ensign ETHEL Greenfield, | Title: CREATING A RIPPLE | 3/26/1943 | See Source »

...will over forget. We'll be a long time out of the Navy before we forget the girl who slept in the bunk beneath us, or our company commander with the pleasant smile, or the platoon leader who even said "Hup" with a southern accent, or the gal who played all the practical jokes and then had to have her ribs taped up when she played ball just a little too vigorously. We'll long remember the ten-to-eleven hour in the living, room the manufactured senttlebutt-always better than the real thing--the coming home after dates...

Author: By Ensign ETHEL Greenfield, | Title: CREATING A RIPPLE | 3/26/1943 | See Source »

...twenty-five cantos which the publishers. Random House, are extending to the masses for a mere deuce ($2), bringing the price per canto to about eight cents. Why, some of the titles alone are worth eight cents: "P-s-s-t, Partner, Your Peristalsis Is Showing," "Creepy Time Gal." "Adorable Taxable You." "Reat Mc. Post-Impressionist Daddy," "To Sleep, Perchance to Steam;" and many others, too humorous to mention...

Author: By S. A. K., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

...solution: high-pressure exploitation of Miss Russell's flaring femininity. Result: some 60 magazine articles, innumerable news pictures. The Hays office helped by censoring one or two shots from The Outlaw. When the Hays office objected to a Buetel line, "You borrowed from me; now I borrowed your gal," Hughes changed the line to "Tit for tat." Hastily the Hays censor agreed the first version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hughes's Western | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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