Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pick up a typewriter and heave it through the window, tear out a signal key and trample it on the floor. But if a newcomer suggests discipline, oldtimers reply: "Hell, no. He'll be all right for two or three weeks now. Better watch the other guys who haven't done anything...
Jimmy has almost forgotten about the days when he played the races. His friends haven't. Those days seem funnier to them than anything since. Jimmy tried to beat the whole horse industry. If eight tracks were operating, he played a horse in every race on every track. Sometimes he would have dozens of horses in scores of parlays all over the nation. The hours he spent handicapping them were as nothing to the time consumed in trying to figure out whether he had won $10 or lost $70. Ultimately his bookie took pity on him, ar ranged...
...unused air strip. Then they fanned out, trapping Jap patrols who were skirmishing with Australians some 60 miles down the coast. With an Australian column poised inland in the Ramu Valley, they set up a two-pronged threat to Madang, the next important Jap base northwest of Finsch-haven. One day last week General MacArthur's fliers plastered the Madang area with 243 tons of high explosive. The next Allied landing might strike that way-the most direct way to the General's lost Philippines...
...thought the [New Yorker] story was to run a couple of weeks later than it did, and approved it. Funny thing-a lot of 'Terry' fans had already guessed 'Midi' was going to turn out to be 'Sanjak,' a woman character I haven't used for about four years...
Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, who haven't been around for so long that our Freshman readers may never have heard of them, have come back with a resounding and heartening comedy hit that bodes well for the team in the future...