Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guy Named Joe (Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson; TIME...
Sometimes a recruit being examined by psychiatrists is truculent, has a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. Navy psychiatrists have learned by experience that such a recruit is not necessarily a psychiatric personality unfit for service; he may be a perfectly normal guy from Brooklyn. Says the New York State Journal of Medicine, the Navy doctors have christened this "harmless social pattern" the "Brooklyn syndrome [set of symptoms...
...task at the League's Philadelphia headquarters is getting out its pocket-size monthly, The Link. The magazine, which runs to some 60 pages, contains stories with a moral, inspirational articles from chaplains, book reviews, Bible readings, a question box for soldiers' problems ("How does a guy keep dirty thoughts from coming to his mind?"), poetry, innocuous jokes, a letters column. Of the current issue's contributors, some 75% are in the armed forces...
...theme here is "Breaks Gotten by College Men In A Ten Million Man Army Where There Isn't Too Much Time To Look Into The Individual Qualifications of The Guy Who Thinks He Ought To Be An Officer Because Well Just Look At That Dumb Shavetail." The Army is chuck full of officers, so forget it if you're thinking of having your Old Man buy you a commission in the Black Watch or the Third Highland Fusileers when you graduate from A-12 or Boy Scout Troop...
...Well, let's take that indispensable quantity, conviviality. Not everybody's got conviviality in the Army. Suppose you were manning an AA gun on a dreary building somewhere along Broadway or Fifth Avenue. Or suppose you were one of the lucky privates who beat the Meteorology racket. A guy I know did, and now he's buried away atop an office building on Third Avenue and 42nd Street in N. Y. What kind of conviviality is that...