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...Nazi outfit called the German Reich Party (DRP) has brazenly entered the lists. Its Führer is handsome Werner Naumann, 43, former chief of staff to Dr. Goebbels, and, by his own account, "the top-ranking Nazi at large." It was he who in 1945 broadcast from the Berlin bunker in which Hitler and Goebbels cowered,* promising the German people that "final victory" would be theirs...
...Barracks in Honolulu, Prew is instantly informed by Captain Dana ("Dynamite") Holmes that he cannot go his own way. Captain Holmes, a boxing fanatic who wants his company to win the regimental championship, knows that Prew is a first-class middleweight, and insists that he box for his new outfit. Prew, who quit fighting after he blinded a friend with a "no more'n ordinary right cross," refuses. Furious, Holmes orders his non-coms-all of whom are on the boxing team-to give Prew "the treatment...
...Powers [TIME, July 20], let me give Powers a little scoop concerning the overpublicized Marine Corps. The Marine Corps receives public attention because marines have a peculiar habit of being the best in anything they undertake. If I remember the 27th Army Division correctly, they were the outfit on Saipan that could not keep up with the Marines and whose commanding general, Ralph Smith, was relieved of his command because he couldn't get his men to move forward. As for comparisons between the Army and Marine Corps, the Marine Corps will top the Army in anything except size...
...walk down." "Yeah," he replied, "send four guys back to carry me and they'll all get clobbered. I'll make it." And he did. Those were the cool heroes, sacrificing themselves, not to "halt aggression" or "fight Communism," but out of elemental loyalty to the outfit, and to the other men around them...
...served his time and left Korea. His outfit stayed on. There was no "duration" to limit or extend his stay. The veterans of World War II went home by the hundreds of thousands in the ranks of their outfits, with a sense of accomplishment and the prospect of a big welcome-maybe a parade. They had suffered and won. The veterans of Korea trickled back individually, with a sense of relief at being alive. They have merely suffered...