Word: gunner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FORWARD, GUNNER ASCH! (368 pp.)-Hans Hellmut Kirs-Little, Brown...
...model number (0-8-15) of the Wehrmacht service pistol-which in Germany is a term roughly equivalent to G.I. The book snickered behind the officers' ramrod backs, put in a plea for the dignity of the individual in uniform, and demonstrated hilariously how a canny conscript like Gunner Asch could win at the old army game simply by hiding behind regulations. Old army pros denounced it, and the publisher's office was ransacked by hoodlums. But Gunner Asch became the talk of the land and Null-Acht-Funfzehn the bestselling novel of postwar West Germany...
...similar embouchure. One day he met a fellow who had two vibraphones and wanted a trumpet; it happened that Don had two trumpets, so that was that. By this time he was aware that he had an extraordinary flair for music, and after a hitch as tail gunner in the Air Corps, he went to school to study theory and harmony...
...Poujade, one can understand how frighteningly amusing the rest of the world found the muscling antics of the Great McCarthio and his Yes Men jesters. I wonder, though, whether France is healthy enough to shake Poujade out of her hair as we seem almost to have accomplished with Tail Gunner...
...much too personal for two of our reporters. Paris Correspondent William McHale, covering the unrest in North Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), was caught out after curfew one night near Algiers. Stopped by Senegalese troops with fixed bayonets, McHale was prodded off to the commissariat by a young French machine gunner with an itchy finger. When the correspondent showed his press pass, the nervous Frenchman snapped:"That doesn't mean a thing-this is war!" At the commissariat, luckily, cooler heads prevailed: McHale was released after a 15-minute grilling...