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...postoffice, personnel and records work. But the Army was not ready for even a 58,000 enrollment. There are WAACs, duly sworn in, who still wear civilian clothes because they have no uniforms. By June 1, however, the Army expects to turn out every woman in full kit...
...Army is now rushing construction and delivery of a compact entertainment package, the B-kit, containing a seven tube radio and record player, mechanical phonograph, records, transcriptions, song books and six harmonicas. Sidelight on radio tastes: soldiers in the South Pacific who hear radios prefer BBC news to the "too optimistic" newscast from KGEI, San Francisco...
This venture, known as the U.S. Army Hit Kit, was started several months ago by Major Howard Bronson and Captain Harry Salter, a onetime radio musical director. The Special Service Division thought U.S. doughboys ought to have something up-to-date to sing, to provide a substitute for Army bands which are often left far behind the front. The Army has since found the Hit Kit useful in another way. U.S. forces rolling over occupied territory in tanks and jeeps make a friendly impression on native populations by bellowing such tunes as Roll Out the Barrel...
Brightest spot at the Toy Fair was the game business. Less harried by shortages than the toy industry, the game industry is doing more business than ever before. It is riding an Army & Navy boom: practically every serviceman's kit includes a pack of cards, a checker board or a backgammon set, and the U.S. Army recently ordered 1,500,000 dice at one clip...
...fallen from a refugee train some hours before. The train wheels had cut his foot off. He was all alone, crying, and his flesh was mangled on the rail. The bones of his foot were sticking out like a thin white cornstalk. I broke open my medicine kit and gave Kim some sulfanilamide and we raced on to tell someone to send water and a doctor. But there was no doctor within a day's journey...