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...regular nightly diversion is what we call a snooper shoot. The Japs' reconnaissance planes circle like midges, dropping flares to summon torpedo bombers. Our main batteries light out with unexpected bursts. Sometimes we let go with everything and the tracers dance across the sea like ping-pong balls. It is impossible in the darkness to count how many we shoot down...
...interlude between wars, Mark Clark was just another officer. He went through the advanced schools-Infantry, General Staff, War College. He played tennis and ping-pong, developed a taste for fishing in the Rockies and Puget Sound. In 1924 he married blonde Maurine Doran of Muncie, Ind. Mrs. Clark has confessed publicly that she met her husband "on a blind date" in Washington. There are two children: Ann, 17, who attends a high-school sculpture class in the national capital; and Will, 18, a plebe at West Point...
...Another vicious ball-swatter is short-tempered, tough Harold Ickes. His favorite game: table tennis (ping-pong, as Mr. Ickes plays...
Chaplain (Colonel) William D. Cleary received the gift consisting of rugs, individual easy chairs, lounges, library tables, reading lamps, a piano, and a ping-pong table. Introduced by the Invocation pronounced by Chaplain J. C. Ryan, the proceedings featured Sidney L. Rindler who spoke in behalf of the council and expressed his pleasure to be able to contribute towards the war effort. Dr. Philip G. Berman and Bennett Silverblatt, vice-president of the council and chairman of the War Work Committee were the other speakers of the evening...
...office force at the Headquarters in Germanic Museum are finding considerable relief and relaxation in the newly opened Day Room which has been rather attractively furnished with ping-pong table, easy chairs, victrola, piano, and various games...