Word: serviceman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week he had struck it rich, taken out $25,000, was going strong, with nothing to lose-since on the "split-check" leasing plan, a miner invests only his time, surrenders half his take. Miner Conrow, too, had learned his trade before the war. Looking at the returned U.S. serviceman last week, his neighbors concluded that he, like other new small businessmen, was ignoring the "everything-for-the-boys" oratory, preferring to set his own course, toward his own goal...
...some of the old-line R.A. Colonels-that makes the next five miles seem like only four! And when General Eisenhower backed up Mauldin against all the stars-well, after that, Ike was our man. Through Up Front we can bitch to the men we want to listen. [SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD] Westhampton Beach...
...airs Assignment Home (Sat., 4:30 p.m., E.W.T.), a well-written, realistic program dramatizing the return of soldiers to civilian life (last week's story was about the readjustment of a deafened serviceman...
...leave in the CBI theater, 15 British soldiers had fallen ill and a U.S. Negro orchestra leader had died. The disease was spreading like fire through the city, packed with thousands of U.S. and British soldiers. Although 29 British soldiers had come down with it, not one U.S. serviceman had yet been infected-thanks to the U.S. Army's compulsory vaccination rule...
King Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...