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They call it all sorts of names: "jeep," "beep," "peep," "bug," "chigger."* But by any name this homeliest item in the U.S. Army's rolling stock, the 2,200-lb. midget combat car, has, after a year and a half of service, been recognized as an unexpected and unique success...
Lieut. Colonel Ingomar M. Oseth, the Army's No. 1 jeep expert, said last week: "Transportation in the U.S. Army is at least 50% superior to that of any other army in the world, and the jeep can grab a big share of the glory." Echoed Major General Courtney H. Hodges, Chief of Infantry: "It is,the most useful motor vehicle we've ever had." The men who have to use it give it even more affectionate pats on its sawed-off back...
Discouraged by faculty preachments about his attitude, Chanler was walking down the school street one day when the school's disciplinary master (known as "the Jeep") overtook him and quietly remarked: "Chanler, you have got just as many friends here as you ever had. You'd better come back next year." After 21 years, Chanler Chapman con cluded: "All that happened was that I learned a sense of proportion. ... I had the best time I ever had in any institution, committed more crimes and follies, led the forces of rebellion and disorder . . . and, because of a dozen...
...over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some of the strip's phrases which have passed into the language: "goon" (a homely person, or one with a hangover), "jeep" (a girl who demands an expensive good time), "I yam what...