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...prepared to stand off a siege. Many got a winter supply of coal, and began having ice, groceries and milk delivered. They hired two lawyers. But at week's end the going began to get tough. Six of the veterans were arrested for trespassing. Said their leader, ex-Pfc. Paul Principato, as he was booked by the cops: "Who wants that medal of mine? They can have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: The First Squatters | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...TIME, with those three little words "Serviceman's Name Withheld" at the end of every G.I. letter. . . . Comes now two letters [TIME, Aug. 19], one praising and one ribbing the brass, one signed by Ex-T/Sgt. So-and-so and the other by So-and-so, ex-Pfc, A.U.S. . . . I tell you, peace, atomic or otherwise, is wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...Said Pfc. Jack Loeb of Elkins Park, Pa., who had gone to the Conference to see "what we were fighting for": "If it was me, I'd just tell them all to go to hell." As the delegates disputed, he whispered: "Why don't they just take a vote on it? That's what we used to do in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Exasperation | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Pfc. A.U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Negro Staff Sergeant Gilbert Cartiero's winning picture (titled 0600 Hours) showed a pfc. putting on his pants. In bed in the background sprawled a tired naked German maiden. According to one red-faced bigwig, Sergeant Cartiero's picture might "reflect badly on Red Cross activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Bad Impression | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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