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Most of the Marines live on the ground under tiny pup tents. The others, who are without tents, have rigged up makeshift caves in the sides of the hills...
...course everyone, whether they come from Cambridge, Los Angeles, La Grange, Illinois, or even New Haven has heard of the Harvard-Yale rivalry, which has extended since the time "Harvard was old Harvard when Yale was but a pup." Football games between the Crimson and the Blue have made the names of Charley Brickley, the great place-kick specialist, Charlie Buell, another great kicker and field general, and Eddy Mahan, the wonder back, familiar to generations of Harvard...
...spend a free weekend. Even the Pluto Water was free. Only expense for each guest: he must buy at least $1,000 in war bonds. The guests outdid themselves. Slapstick Cinecomedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello conducted an auction. Boldest bid: $103,000 in bonds for a cocker-spaniel pup donated by Cinemactress Irene Dunne. Total sales that weekend in French Lick...
Outside historic Petersburg some 800 hog-dirty, dog-tired soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 8th Quartermaster Training Regiment were sleeping soundly. A soft north-northeast breeze fanned the damp air; the lonely flashlight of a patrolling officer threaded the dark Virginia night; somewhere a mongrel pup howled plaintively. Suddenly came the long, heart-chilling shriek of dive-bombers, the rattle of machine guns, the dull, stomach-curdling thud of high explosives. Over the camp rolled clouds of black, evil-smelling smoke. Up went a cry: "Gas! Gas! Gaaaasss!" Out of their tiny olive-green tents tumbled soldiers, stuffing heads into...
...onetime newsman, friendly as an Airedale pup, Furniture Merchant Monroney arrived in Congress four years ago from Oklahoma City. To grow up as a good Congressman he listened, kept his mouth shut, studied hard, said nothing until he had something to say. What he said then usually made sense. This week earnest Mike Monroney stood up in Congress, brushed back his mop of hair, peered at his colleagues, and let them have...