Word: kilroy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like Kilroy, I was here (1929-'33) but I'm no legend--yet. --E. P. L., Nieman...
...took them in hand, ushered them into a pastel green haven with a fascinating array of gleaming gadgets and tweedy psychiatrists. The psychiatrists worked swiftly and efficiently. By nightfall 180 troubled veterans had spilled their principal worries, trooped out. Scrawled on the wall outside was an eloquent parting shot: "Kilroy was here...
...Kilroy" was World War IIs best-known G.I. No one ever saw him, no one ever caught up with him. But wherever G.I.s went, they found that Kilroy had preceded them, leaving his mark on privy and barracks walls. After Bikini it was found chalked on the battleship Pennsylvania. One of numerous G.I. theories about Kilroy: he was an AWOL infantryman, trying to let his commanding officer know where he was. But an A.A.F. sergeant, Francis J. Kilroy of Everett, Mass., said not at all: a pal of his had started it just...
...Nathan H. Garrick, Jr., Boston; Charles S. Glesson, Wareham; Landis Gores, Cincinnati, Ohio; James G. Hays, Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich.; Thomas L. Higginson, Marshall, Va.; Richard A. Hirschfield, Chicago, Ill.; John W. Hughes, Lake Forest, Ill.; Arthur C. Hyman, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; David B. Ingram, Mansfield; Edward F. Kilroy, Roslindale; George J. Kyte, Jr., West Hartford, Conn.; Paul A. Lamothe, Arlington; Sheldon L. Land Cambridge; Jamen D. Lyach, Lowell...
Captaincies will be held by Walter D. Brooks, Richard H. Campbell, Thomas M. Cook, Stuart H. Cowan, F. Lee Foster, John W. Hughes, David B. Ingram, Edward Francis Kilroy, George J. Kyte, A. Washington Mathis, Malcolm P. McNair, John G. Penson, Raymond V. Randall, J. Tracy Rogers 2nd, Richard N. Thomas, Winsor T. White, and James T. Williams...