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...families share their services, following a schedule that calls for each couple to do all of the cooking and housework for one week. "That's KP once every six weeks per couple, which keeps everybody happy," says Ethel. Her husband, for instance, has curtailed his practice so that he can spend one day a week at home on child-care and cooking duty. Says Ethel, "The truth is that most men are deprived of a close relationship with their children, and our men are finding out what they've been missing. It's groovy...
...Tactical Fighter Squadron, where his regular assignment was to work in a clerical section under a Negro master sergeant. His superiors and buddies alike were unanimous in pronouncing him a regular guy and a hard worker. He handled requests for interviews by not giving any. He was photographed on KP duty, and pictures of Nugent tromping down garbage and washing dishes got wide circulation...
...lives, but Lawrence's writing was best suited to description, and it became cluttered when he tried to think. Set down as it is in short jerky chapters, The Mint has no final impact. Above all, it comes too late. A generation of men who know KP chores, the squeeze of discipline and the harmless obscenity of barracks lingo are not apt to be impressed by these documentary notes. To their wives, the book will seem like a more literary version of some of the hurt letters their men wrote during the first weeks of basic...
...since the previous evening. Mr. Carr stated that Mr. Cohn had been trying to reach Mr. Adams from New York and that the purpose of Mr. Cohn's call was to have Mr. Adams intervene with the commanding general at Fort Dix because Private Schine was scheduled for KP duty on the following day, a Sunday. Mr. Adams told Mr. Carr that it was absolutely impossible for him to do anything from Amherst...
...year-old contributor to the 45th Division News, Mauldin's drawings (of which this book reprints 439) retained most of the stock situations of the civilian cartoonist's view of the army. There were the gags about KP, guard duty, and the soldier whose wife turns up in the WAC's. But as you thumb through this handsome book, as Mauldin's outfit moves from training stateside to Sicily, then Italy, the top sergeant gags disappear. Instead there are the drawings that eventually took Mauldin away from his division and gave his a job doing them full time...