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...Pfc. Alton W. Knappenberger, 20 years old, 120 lbs., who knocked off 60 Nazis on the Anzio beachhead, arrived practically broke in his home town, Spring Mount, Pa. Explained the Congressional medalist: "I saved up $150. .. . Then while I was in Naples a pickpocket took it all. The people there are pretty hard...
...year-old Peter Leventritt of New York City, made a Life Master in 1943, who won last week's world-championship master pairs; George Rapee, bush-haired son of Radio City Music Hall Conductor Erno Rapee, and a Senior Master, who won the 1944 individual world championship; Pfc. John Crawford of Philadelphia, who, when he was 25, became the youngest Life Master...
...Said Pfc. Marcel Beaulieu, 21, of Chicapee Falls, Mass.: "I think I'm going to stay in New York and see a couple of ball games. I've been thinking about that for a long time. I used to keep thinking about that last game...
Listen, TIME, there's enough cheap talk being thrown around without having you encourage more of it by printing it for a laugh. Your July 3 issue introduced the no-nonsense girl, Pfc. Eunice Shepard, who saluted the "deskbound male Marines" at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with the icy remark: "I joined the Marines to free a man to fight. Who's leaving...
...first U.S. soldiers wounded in France to get back to the U.S. were Lieut. Colonel Michael C. Murphy and Pfc. James A. Lester. They were flown from Britain in a C-54. ambulance plane, a trip so swift, the Colonel said, that it took half as long as the boat ride from Normandy back to Britain. Last week scores of soldiers who, like them, face long convalescence, had been sped home by the big transports...