Word: serviceman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First of Harvard's two present objectives is "to enable the returned serviceman to complete his professional education in a minimum of time; second, to provide for entrance three times a year...
...comfort of home. Through that lighted window John Boynton Priestley has tossed a well-aimed literary brick. Novelist Priestley (The Good Companions; Angel Pavement) is one of British Labor's most popular literary backers. In a brief (32-page), brusque, best-selling pamphlet entitled Letter to a Returning Serviceman, Priestley beseeches ex-Tommies to beware of their heart's desire-"the charmed cozy circle" of home life...
...week's end John Goff, like many a returned serviceman, found that his solution was strictly temporary. The school board, horrified by the publicity, sent him packing. Another kind friend with a sofa took...
Barracks occupied by the Japs were foul. The marines rolled up their sleeves, scri-bbed, swept and disinfected. The Chinese cooperated. Mayor Chang Ting-erh broadcast orders to the citizens: "No gypping." The Red Cross took over the sturdily built German Club and made it into "the finest serviceman's club west of San Francisco...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD) c/o Postmaster New York City...