Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lew and Peter share an apartment in New York after their discharge from the Army in 1945. They drink too much, stage noisy parties and most of the women they know wear round heels. Only Ted is a combat veteran. Lew, a public relations officer, and Peter, a radio scripter, fought the war with typewriters (Miller was a Yank editor). Ted, an unstable and unhappy rich kid, commits suicide; Lew gets a dose of anti-Semitism from the girl he loves and goes home to California; Peter can get any woman into bed but the one he cares for, hates...
Three more have gone for good; graduation has claimed linemen Johnny Crocker and Bob Feloney, while Lew Preston has passed up the honor of playing for the Crimson to cast his lot with the A.A.U. Olympic pretenders. On the positive side of the ledger, ace defenseman Charlic Coulter has recovered from pneumonia and is ready to resume his duties, John Monroe will bolster the goal-guarding staff, Jack Carman is up from the freshman team, and Chase has hopes for the return Bill Garrity to duty...
...miles distant. Some time after the battle, he got a leave of absence to visit Indiana, see the dentist, buy some summer clothes. The governor asked him to make recruiting speeches. He said he would rather be in the field. The governor said, "There is nothing doing there." Thus Lew Wallace learned that he had been relieved of his command...
...rich man. His grandfather's fortune has already been dispersed; his father's is locked up in Canada, where Rawhide Jim retired in an anti-New Deal huff in 1939. With only $53,570 a year in pay and allowances to run the London Embassy, Lew is forced to dig deep into his own savings...
...Lew Douglas' spirits are up. Though his Arizona tan is gone and he is beginning to look a little drawn, his sinus trouble has not bothered him in London's unusually dry, bright weather. His stomach (he once had "most of the insides cut out" as a result of the Argonne gassing) is well enough so that he can sneak an occasional forbidden Martini or cigarette...