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Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, warm-worded war correspondent, learned that he had been given partial credit for improving U.S. mechanized equipment. From Africa, to the jeep's makers (Willys-Overland), Pyle had written: "The jeep is a divine instrument of wartime locomotion [but the present hand brake] is perfectly useless." Last week Willys-Overland wrote to tell him that they had substituted a good, new internal-expansion brake for the bad, old external-contraction type...
...spring, General Bradley left his London headquarters to visit his troops in the field. Promptly at 8:15, having breakfasted on Lend-Lease powdered eggs, he stepped out of the officers' mess and into a waiting Cadillac. Sergeant Alex Stout, a black-haired young man who used to jeep the General around Sicily, sent the long black car purring southward...
...night in May, 1943, three Negro soldiers, driving in a reconnaissance car through Noumea, French capital of the South Pacific outpost, came upon a white U.S. lieutenant and a French girl standing near a jeep. According to the lieutenant's testimony, the three soldiers threatened him, took the girl into the bushes and raped...
Four Jills in a Jeep (20th Century-Fox) and Ladies Courageous (Universal) are Hollywood's idea of what women can do for the war and painful examples of what Hollywood, under the pressure of patriotism, can do to women. In the first, Hollywood vigorously shakes its own hand for letting some actresses go to shake a leg on the world battlefronts. In the second, Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Diana Barrymore pilot planes around...
...Jeep bounces Carole Landis, Kay Francis, Martha Raye and Mitzi Mayfair through a catch-as-catch-can cineversion of Miss Landis' book (and Satevepost articles) of the same title, reporting their experiences as USO entertainers. In the book, only Miss Landis got married. In the picture, Martha Raye, the feminists' Joe E. Brown, practically ingests the comic sergeant (Phil Silvers) who chauffeurs their jeep. Mitzi Mayfair snuggles up to a uniformed ex-vaudeville partner (Dick Haymes, who is Fox's threat to Frank Sinatra, and sings like melting vanilla ice cream). Kay Francis plays handles with...