Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some charter members of Post 591: an 18-year-old sailor wounded by shrapnel (South Pacific); a young private with punctured ear drums (North Africa); a paratrooper who injured his back in a practice jump; an ex-National Guardsman suffering from shock and war neurosis; a 45-year-old World War I veteran who was drafted again for World War II and served in a medical battalion until discharged...
Married. Orson Welles, 28, showman; and Rita Hayworth, 24, cinemalulu; each for the second time; three months after Rita announced that she would marry Coast Guardsman Victor Mature after the war; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sleight-of-handed Welles, who at the ceremony could not get the ring out of its box, had featured his bride in his Hollywood magic show (TIME, Aug. 16). Said Mature: "Apparently the way to a girl's heart is to saw her in half...
Surprising was the word for it. The 62nd National Lawn Tennis Championships, which promised to be a bust, turned out to be a pretty good show-largely because several top-ranking players in uniform wangled unexpected furloughs* and played unexpectedly good tennis. One of them, Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer, played well enough to upset the pre-tournament favorite, Francisco Segura, two-fisted pride of Ecuador. Still another, Lieut, (j.g.) Joe Hunt, beat Kramer in the finals...
Ecuador Dynamo Segura had swept every tournament this summer; his opponent, 22-year-old Coast Guardsman Kramer, former Men's Doubles titleholder, not only had not seen a grass court all year but had suddenly developed a case of what Ellsworth Vines called "ptomaine nerves" (nervous stomach). Lank, lackadaisical Jack Kramer slouched around the court; pigeontoed, muttering, gesticulating Segura crouched like a predatory biped, gave everything Kramer hit a run for its money. Kramer, rejecting the tempo agitato, dropped the first set 2-6, suddenly found the touch and raced through the next three sets...
...hundreds burned in Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire last November, all who had deep burns on more than 30% of their bodies died - except one. Last week that amazing survivor, a 22-year-old Coast Guardsman named Clifford Johnson who had 55% of his skin burned, was recovering. Doctors reported the treatment had made medical history...