Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judging by our mail, I guess reading the lead article in last week's TIME (about the 370 furloughed Guadalcanal Marines and their trip across the U.S. on the "Home Again Special") stirred our subscribers just as deeply as meeting and talking with these boys stirred the TIME people who reported the story...
...Some kind of a dance or clam-bake or lynching party should be organized. With men like Jock Brunner and Bill James straining at the leash only the inspiration is needed. Don Brown suggests that a formal dance would go well the weekend after Labor Day. I guess, maybe, he's right. 2) The singing and marching on the way to chow. The morale which made us almost conspicuous during our Midshipmen term has just about disintegrated. Perhaps the new songs which will be out soon will help remedy this...
Cotton Ed heard the news of his defeat while slumped in a chair at his 2,500-acre farm near Lynchburg. He chomped his jowls for a moment, then rose and said matter-of-factly: "Well, I guess I'd better go out and look at the pigs...
...McNair, in tribute to the infantry, said: "[Their] guts and brains . . . put the finishing touches-the copper-riveted handiwork-on the craftsmanship of the air forces, the artillery, and the tank corps." Last week it looked as though Whitey McNair was off to do some copper-riveting himself. Best guess: he would command an American army group somewhere in Europe...
...crates had been hauled from Monte Cassino, their first hiding place, by trucks of the Hermann Goering Division. Best guess was that the Titians had disappeared into flesh-loving Hermann's gallery of high-class nudes, the Breughel into Linz's Hitler Museum, which specializes in the Flemish masters...