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...water," across the only exit, twice collided with an electric fan before he got out. When he reached a hospital ship an hour and a half later, he was probably the most severely burned man on medical record. Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire had scorched 55% of Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson's body, and his survival was considered a medical miracle. The young fireman was burned on 75 to 80% of his body, and lived...
...Maquet brought Dumas the rough draft of a novel about a Guardsman named D'Artagnan. The Three Musketeers had been born...
...Coast Guardsman Victor Mature's molars were tugged out in Boston-two of the few that never showed in photographs. He confided to the local press the things most desired by every sailor when he reaches port: a soft bed and a dirty joke...
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...