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...teaching texts are relied upon most heavily in posts off the beaten track where mail deliveries are too few and far between for correspondence courses. Simplified language, helpful (and often amusing) drawings, frequent summaries, and true-false tests have been used to make the books effective in teaching solitary GI students...
This trip across North Africa gave me a pretty good idea of what Red Cross is doing and I assure you it's a lot. They have showers, towels, soap. They have food that we try our best to make a little different from the GI stuff. Cold drinks. You have no idea what a luxury...
...Since the first Low Numbers were inducted, this Esquire GI has popped in & out of our leading magazines. Back in '41 he rode troop trains-in razor-creased wools and a Pershing cap! He later appeared in Guada, happy, smiling, clean as a boy scout poster. He arrived safely, and none the worse for wear, in North Africa. He showed up in New Guinea, a notoriously messy theater of war, and went so far as to sit near a very small puddle of water...
...knack multiple endeavor is relatively easy for an old newspaperman (I quit the racket in 1939, when the bottom fell out of the price of old newspapers). The facility remains: I can fall out on the double for reveille in my bare feet, putting on my GI shoes as I run down the stairs. I lace 'em up, too--living as I do on the fourth floor, I have plenty of time...
Toilet articles will be issued, including a razor and blades, but GI toothbrushes are rumored to be somewhat flabby. Electric shavers are usually useable, but are often inconvenient in barracks. Extra socks, which may be need, can best be obtained at the PX. A radio is allowed, but must be small...