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...with admirable impartiality" the U.S. soldier also likes to laugh at his own misfortunes. If he should "stumble inadvertently into a pile of manure, he will be the first to tell about it, and will almost certainly enlarge the dimensions and aromas of the pile at each successive recounting." His humor is vulgar, loud and bawdy...
...Greece he and his staff arrived at a port where a destroyer was to meet them. The ship was nowhere in sight; the Germans were getting closer; the younger officers were pacing nervously. Someone ventured to ask what the General was going to do. Jumbo climbed atop a pile of baggage and settled himself in comfort. Said...
...Marshall came back. This time he brought along Major General Frank Parker, Retired. He said, "Mr. McGonegal, I just wanted to bring your old regimental commander to see you." Unable to shake hands, McGonegal embraced the old soldier. Said McGonegal: "The years just seemed to fall away like a pile of blocks...
...also has to deal with a multiplicity of other problems inherent in many other uses of wood products: from income-tax forms and war bonds to delivery of paper-wrapped ammunition in wooden boxes and V-boxes. His efforts go not alone to an equitable chopping of the wood pile, but also to prodding production toward a larger pile...
Suds in Your Eye (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Mary Lasswell's novel; produced by Katherine Brown and J. H. Del Bondio) chronicles the capers of three beer-befuddled old girls in a San Diego junk yard. Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...