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...irrepressible individuality undiluted by Army life in a London film unit, was seen saluting a Red Cross worker. He explained: "I saluted the dignified expression on his face." Major Bobby Jones worked with Air Forces Intelligence, in a country town where sugar beets grow on the golf course. Pfc. Irwin Shaw, New Yorker author and anti-war playwright (Bury the Dead), traipsing across Piccadilly in his ill-fitting G.I. clothes, observed: "When we get out of here, they'll be dizzy with Lebensraum...
Britain's egg shortage was really serious, reported Pfc. William J. Rozak in a letter home. He could not get a one for breakfast. In Rhode Island his mother promptly bought a dozen, dipped them in paraffin, packed them in sawdust, mailed them across the Atlantic. Last week Egg-Lover Rozak gratefully acknowledged a dozen old-fashioned breakfasts: "Not a one was broken...
...show consists of 15 scenes, and was written by Tec/Sgt. Robert Glauber, Pfc Sol Chafkin, Sgt. Lorey Marts, Pfc George Reim, and S/Sgt. George Avakian. It is a satire on the Army and on Harvard--especially on the weird mixture of the two. It pokes fun at Radcliffe, the Harvard Navy, Boston, the Army, and even the faculty...
...Tarawa alone five Marines from San Antonio were killed: Lieut. Alexander Bonnyman Jr., Staff Sergeant William J. Bordelon Jr., Pfcs. Arthur Menger, Gene Seng, Charles Montague. Wounded were Sergeant Sam McAllister, Pfc. George Smith. Cited for heroism: Lieut. John Holmgreen, a schoolmate at Central Catholic High School of Seng, Montague and Bordelon...
Killed in Action. Marine Pfc. Stephen Peter Hopkins, 18, youngest of Harry Lloyd Hopkins' three sons; in the Marshall Islands. Stephen, who had preferred active service to Officer Training School, was buried...