Word: infantryman
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...muscular humor, many a New Yorker was less than charmed by the spectacle of baying, middle-aged men cavorting through the streets. The New York Post's "Saloon Editor" Earl Wilson predicted: "New York will never tolerate the American Legion again." A World War II combat infantryman wrote a letter to the New York Daily News: "A warning to any Legion clown who approaches me: you must have paid plenty for those store teeth, Pop. . . . No sense getting them all mashed...
...hectic saluting that went on wherever starchy old Courthouse strode or rode. General Lee, supply chief to easygoing Ike Eisenhower, loved parades and smaller pomp, and he insisted that his quartermasters, bakers and truck drivers be snappier, and handier with that salute, than any combat infantryman...
Like generations of graduating classes before them, they were discovering disillusionment. Said Frank Mankiewizc, ex-infantryman, editor of U.C.L.A.'s Daily Bruin: "If I was starting again, I would change my major from political science to history. In history you get facts. In the social sciences you get other people's opinions." His classmate, William Stout, 22, thought that teachers were "trying to impose morality on a situation that demands immorality for success...
While scratching his beard in a foxhole one day, Infantryman Al Daniels thought up the idea as a gag. When he came home, U.S. cosmetic peddlers, well aware of the faint line between a gag and a gold mine, would not let him forget it. So Daniels Shadow Proof Inc. of Boston last week invaded the $50,000,000-a-year men's toiletries market with a carnation-scented, flesh-colored paste which will camouflage 5 o'clock shadow and banish that unshaven look. At Manhattan's Macy's, one excited employee hailed...
Among the youngest (the oldest is 48), 33-year-old Andre Fougeron is a dark, wiry ex-infantryman who escaped from...