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...eager Hearst editors it looked like a natural: one Private Joseph McGee of Worcester, Mass., billed as "in the regular Army since 1938 with an honorable record of service," had been sentenced to two years for slapping Nazi prisoners (TIME, June...
Roared Columnist Austen Lake in the Boston American: "If Private McGee-God bless him-socked nine Heinies for refusal to follow work orders it is no more than nine million other guys in our Army have been yearning to do for years." In Boston and New York, Hearstlings set "storm of protest" experts to work, got shocked statements from statement-givers, bombarded Congressmen with telegrams. Upshot: Private McGee was reinstated. (Other newspapers went along cautiously; some suspected that there might be something wrong with a private of seven years' standing...
...summer slumps were back. Radio's high-priced winter wonders were off-or taking off. Some were headed overseas, like Bob Hope (on his fourth trip) and Jack Benny (on his third). Some, like Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby, were doing hospital turns at home. Others-like Fibber McGee and Molly at their Southern California ranch-were back on the soil. In their places, for the most part, were programs whose budgets were only a third as big, and whose routines were not a third as good...
...several days the prisoners had been sourly discussing the case of Private Joseph McGee, who had been serving time for abusing nine lazy Nazi prisoners in Europe. His case had become celebrated in the press. Through Congressional efforts he had been released, restored to the ranks, returned to his Worcester home, where he was greeted by his sobbing sister, made a town hero...
...Escape. But to the Ft. Harrison prisoners Private McGee was just another, if slightly luckier, guy. Cried they: "If McGee got out, why shouldn't we?" When bewhiskered Colonel Peyton C. Winlock, post commander, tried to quell the riot with dignity and authority, someone let fly a boulder which caught him on the back of the head. Dazedly he retired. Fires burst out in two widely separated buildings: a barracks and the infirmary. Four Indianapolis fire companies were summoned to help firemen control a conflagration, spread by a brisk breeze...