Word: noncomers
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...opening scene of A Soldier's Play, which inaugurates the Negro Ensemble Company's 15th season. It is a drama of tensile strength that almost deflects attention from its flaws. The dead man is Technical Sergeant Vernon C. Waters (Adolph Caesar), a regular Army, "all Army" noncom who fought in World War I. The time is 1944; the place Fort Neal, La. Apart from its white officers, this is a black outfit consigned to menial and, sometimes, degrading tasks...
...conspire to reverse a surgical decision to amputate Prell's shattered legs. Such a quixotic effort is at least possible; but in Whistle the men not only succeed, they then win approval from the hospital brass. Jones has come a long, sad way since his days as the noncom's Homer...
...offer. So right out of high school, in 1939, a feisty welterweight by then, he signed up with the regular Army. As promised, adventure and travel were his -Honolulu, Schofield Barracks, amateur boxing, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Purple Heart, Bronze Star. But advancement seemed beyond James Jones -twice he made noncom and got busted back to private. After five boisterous years and a war, he returned to civilian life. But he packed the Army with him and marched its brawling, grumbling, whoring characters through his typewriter. The result was From Here to Eternity in 1951. The novel was greeted with raves...
Phillips' find was not unique. The new strain of bacteria had shown up in several other laboratories in Britain, and doctors at Travis Air Force Base in California encountered penicillin-proof gonococci in a young Air Force noncom who had just returned from the Philippines. Another example was reported in Maryland. By last week Atlanta's Center for Disease Control had verified 33 cases of gonorrhea in the U.S. that did not respond to conventional penicillin therapy. Alarmed by these reports, the World Health Organization (WHO) alerted VD experts everywhere to give top priority to learning more about...
...Army bases that are home to basic trainees. Typically in such cases, a recruit was given a weekend pass, allowed to get away with some minor infraction, or awarded a passing grade on a test. In exchange, he had to pay cash to his drill instructor or some other noncom, or perform a service such as washing or waxing a sergeant's car. The bribes were slyly referred to as "birthday gifts...