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...Reds mount their loudspeakers on trucks and bring them up within a mile or less of the battle line. When they broadcast music in an attempt to make American troops homesick, the U.S. artillerymen play a game called "Stop the Music"-sending over 105-mm. howitzer shells. In most cases, the G.I. gunners claim, they can stop the music with one round...
Claremont's 38 students present a wide range of problems-from the "homusicku" (homesick) Japanese boy who cannot eat fried eggs, to the Indian who refuses to shower in the nude ("I shall wear my swim suit"). For such students, Claremont found that drills on grammar and pronunciation were beside the point. "In six weeks," says Dean Emmett Thompson, "we've got to give them a complete course in Americana...
...which Leitz is barred). To choose the site, 81-year-old Dr. Ernst Leitz, son of the founder, sent over his 46-year-old son and namesake who thought that Midland, with its lake and nearby rivers, looked enough like Wetzlar to keep the emigre workmen from getting too homesick...
...Downs. His driving ambition got him a contract with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics. He was 18, cocky and confident. But after a few weeks on the Greenville (Miss.) Class C farm club, Infielder Stanky was not so sure he wanted to be a major leaguer after all. Homesick and desperately unhappy, he wrote to his parents for money to come home. After ten anxious days he got a terse refusal from his mother. The letter ended: "We don't want any quitters in our family...
...Germany, in England, at air bases in North Africa, G.I.s who were homesick for college campuses, frustrated students from the U. of M.'s extension courses in Washington, pilots who were feeling the squeeze of new educational requirements for commissions-all clamored for further schooling. In October 1949, planning on a maximum of 500 students, the Army shipped a supply of books and U. of M. professors to six centers in Germany. On registration day, they were swamped with 1,800 applicants...