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...Walking PX. In Sendai, Japan, officials charged baggageless Shoji Nishimoto with illegal possession of U.S. goods when they found cached on his person: one extra pair of trousers, two shirts, one sweater, one mackinaw, one mirror, one bath towel, a complete shaving set, one Navy flashlight, twelve packs of cigarets, 28 cans, packages and bars of candy and food...
...supposed to get drunk. But the lousy cognac tasted just as lousy to me as a civilian as it did when I was a soldier. I had it all planned to say something nasty to the lieutenant who had kept us waiting around unnecessarily while he went to the PX for his rations. But I didn...
Newspapers & Frogs. Before classes began, the G.I.s sipped Cokes in the PX bar or sprawled with their books on the well-trimmed lawns bordering the former parade ground. In the afternoon they enthusiastically piled into converted class rooms and laboratories in the camp's red brick buildings, launched into their choices of 300 courses. Liberal arts and commerce curriculums attracted more than half, with science, fine arts, agriculture, engineering, journalism and education trailing in that order...
Whoever is responsible for stocking the PX assumes lowly tastes on the part of the servicemen. I, a servicewife and a veteran of many PXs, can work myself into a huff just thinking about it. ... I'll wager nine out of ten comic books are bought in desperation. If people like to read and depend on it for relaxation, they'll read anything rather than nothing...
...Overseas, PX magazine supply conforms more closely to demand. At home it is more variable, depending on the X of distributors and PX officers...