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...fairly typical case history. Arriving at Port Moresby, they drove to their campsite through lines of fuzzy-haired natives and whistling G.I.s. They found the camp in a state of complete unreadiness, but were saved by a "friendly men's unit" that gave them drinking water, bread and jam. They scavenged crates, nails and broken furniture from a supply dump. New Guinea headquarters, says the history, decreed that "in view of the large number of male troops in the area, some of whom allegedly had not seen a nurse or other white woman in 18 months, WACs would...
Real grass was dried, powdered, and sprinkled over the University courtyards and Charles River Banks. Over 1000 trolley cars and automobiles jam the streets in their customary inextricable tangle. For days, the artists struggled to paint trolley rails, but couldn't make the two-dimensional lines realistic. Finally they hit upon the idea of using shellacked threads, and finished the track-laying in half an hour...
...U.S.N. (364 pp.; Holt; $3.95). President Eisenhower's naval aide, 36, topflight submariner and author of the best account to date of undersea combat (Submarine!), has now written his first novel. It is a war novel, with a vengeance. Ed Richardson runs into just about every heart-stopping jam that a Medal-of-Honor-winning pigboat skipper can get into and out of in the battle against Japan. While ripping up shipping all around the Western Pacific, he tangles with "Bungo Pete," the cunning old Japanese ex-submariner whose beaten-up destroyer guards the southern approaches to Japan...
...TIME also regrets the traffic jam, but can accept responsibility only for the inventory of Novelist Marquand's garage...
...nurse ("You succulent starched uniform with a soft center"); the inevitable cold turkey of a head nurse ("You will not walk upon any part of the floor that has recently been polished") and a ruddy great bear ("Sister, how in Hades do you expect me to operate with this jam spreader?") of a head surgeon (James Robertson Justice...