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Another witness, Major Clement E. St. Martin, told the subcommittee that when he protested the steam baths he was upbraided by former Sergeant Major William Woolridge, the Army's top noncom and one of six sergeants indicted for service club infractions. Woolridge menacingly asked St. Martin: "Don't you know you can get hurt?" St. Martin replied: "Let me remind you a major still outranks a sergeant." Not always. St. Martin is now executive officer of the armed forces induction center in Newark, N.J.-hardly the kind of assignment designed to further a career...
With quiet desperation, they are living out a horror story, the seventh age of man. It is strikingly like the first age. They chat a lot, but it is much like babies' babble, unfinished, noncom-municative. They tire easily and plop down like small children at the first available resting place. Mealtime is the pinnacle of the day. In between, they conduct a kind of innocuous sandbox flirtation, brief as a toddler's attention span, with two women inmates, Dandy Nichols and Mona Washbourne, one of whom has a reputation for wetting herself. At odd, unprovoked moments, each...
...would listen for hours to his father's tales of warring with General Pershing on the Mexican border. He joined the Army at 17, received a battlefield commission during World War II, and rose to captain. But with his sketchy education, further promotion was impossible. He reverted to noncom, now holds the rank of sergeant-major. Still hard and trim at 48, Kelley is in charge of re-enlistments for the Second Division Headquarters, about 20 miles north of Seoul, Korea...
This is especially true in the boondocks, where the men have nothing to spend their money on but beer and slot machines. This enables the 300 enlisted men's clubs and the smaller numbers of noncom and officers' clubs to rake in profits of up to $16,000 a week. The clubs, in turn, can afford to shell out from $150 to $500 a show for professional comics from Australia, dance troupes from the Philippines and rock-'n'-roll combos from the States...
...girl who invades their paradise - played by Connie Stevens, an actress with the vocal cords of a Southern noncom - is a superpatriot who treats the American flag like a family heirloom. Nonetheless, her "smell" sends Benjamin into an aphrodizzying spin. Trying feverishly to free his writer from this sexual block, Perkins soon follows his own nose to the selfsame love. On this slender plot line, the playwright has hung some Simon-pure comedy of the inane, the illogical and the absurd. His natively quirky touch is evident when Benjamin attempts to escort the girl bedward with the line, "This...