Word: sailorful
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...show is as simple as K rations, as nostalgic as its cowboy songs, as lusty as a. G.I. bull session. (Chesty brunette to castaway sailor: "I'm going to give you something you haven't had for a loong time." Sailor: "You mean-there's a bottle of ice-cold beer on this island?") On the Road. At one bomber base a number of planes had just been lost when the show arrived. "The girls-Red Cross girls and nurses-came into the theater crying, and some of the fellows were drunk. But when we got through...
...Japanese flags opened strong, asking as high as $100, steadily declined when sailor-men found some of the souvenirs they had bought were made by marines and soldiers, lettered with Japanese ideographs copied from packing cases, e.g., "handle with care...
...Mencken, happy over the soldier-sailor fan mail that followed pocket-size reprinting of his autobiographical Happy Days and Heathen Days, exuberated with an old-fashioned Mencken slambang: "That is the difference between a soldier and a civilian. The letters you get from civilians come from those who don't like your books...
...apparently different standards, the Allied records are lower. The top Allied ace, Russia's Major Alexander Pokryshkin (TIME, May 15), is credited with 53, he said last week. (No Westerner rightly knows how Russian airmen's scores are figured.) Britain's Group Captain Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan and the late Brendan ("Paddy") Finucane, each with 32, are the Western Allies' top scorers; the U.S.'s are Major Richard Ira Bong and Captain Robert S. Johnson, each with...
...film's only funny moment: hugely fat Eugene Pallette, a desk sailor, growling his regret he can't be out there fighting...