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...Branch)! It has been discovered in a roundabout way that student morale officers (both M and F) were busy planning social affairs, but as far as anyone could find out for a long time, their net accomplishment seemed to be the cultivation of a lovely acquaintanceship with each other. Scuttlebutt was rife on the subject of who was going to entertain whom in the very hear future when on Monday evening the matey came by to ask "All secure?" and "Are you going to the tea dance to be given for us on Saturday from...
...service men, rapidly growing in number, have been without a newspaper with the exception of the ill-fated Scuttlebutt...
Upshot of Captain Fuller's plea is a moving radio program called Tell It to the Marines beamed for 15 minutes, five times a week, to all the South Pacific. In addition to news, tunes and scuttlebutt (gossip), the Marines are reached direct with messages from home. Samples...
...time the hot, soggy breath of Christmas Day began to blow across the dank jungles of Guadalcanal, the Marines were writing the last lines to the brightest page in their Corps' history. This time the "scuttlebutt" was true: they were going to be relieved. Last week the War Department finally announced that the job had been completed. Guadalcanal's fighting force (except for airmen still provided by the Navy) was now made up of Army troops...
...Scuttlebutt has been a Yard institution ever since the First Naval Indoctrination Unit arrived on July 1. From a mimeographed bulletin the scuttlebutt has risen to its present form, embracing all the activities of the student officers. With the cooperation of the Crimson Printing Company and the CRIMSON, the NTS paper moved to Plympton Street, and had been publishing daily from there. The format, it has been decided, will remain the same when the Scuttlebutt resumes publication next Tuesday...