Word: homesick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your editors credit "homesick G.I.s" with cooperative authorship of what happens to be a product of my own fertile imagination [ironic list of qualifications for furloughs home-TIME...
Katharine Cornell, back from a smash six-months tour of European battlefronts in her oldtime hit, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, cited some play-acting lines which used to leave Broadway cold but panicked her homesick G.I. audiences: 1) "Italy is a greatly overrated country filled with nothing but heaps of rubbish, dust, flies, stenches and beggars"; 2) "I should be more than willing to give up soldiering to take up some money-making business." Leading Man Brian Aherne reported that when he kissed Actress Cornell on stage, one enthusiastic soldier shouted: "Oh, pass it around, mister, pass it around...
...soldiers overseas, rotation (periodic furloughs home) is one of the grim jokes of the war. Homesick G.I.s stuck in New Guinea for the past two years recently composed their own G.I. version of eligibility "for relief via rotation...
...counterirritant to "Tokyo Rose." Servicemen who listen regularly to both programs assure Jill that hers is superior. For one thing, Rose's records are mostly old and scratchy. But the explanation may be more basic. The fair flower of Tokyo exerts herself mightily to make U.S. servicemen homesick; G.I. Jill's trick is to make them feel at home...
...saying that the U.S. Army abroad consists of "7,000,000 isolationists" got to be a cliché last year. It probably has the faults of most cliches. Last week a TIME correspondent, freshly arrived in Britain from the U.S., told of an impromptu session with hundreds of homesick airmen. What he found was a deep concern in both domestic and foreign affairs, unmatched by anything he had recently seen or heard of at home...