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...SERVICEMEN'S NAMES WITHHELD) % Fleet Post Office San Francisco...
...great many of them, of course, are for homecoming servicemen, and these are changes that we are especially happy to make. Every day last fall 2,000 to 3,000 A.P.O. and F.P.O. addresses wrote us to send TIME to them at home, or to hold up their copies until they knew where they were going. Even now, our "suspend until informed" file has about 95,000 names (mostly subscribers to our military editions...
...wandering U.S. Army & Navy. Like most national publishers, TIME had only one way of listing subscribers: geographically. No change could be made, therefore, without first looking up the subscriber's old address in the geographical file. But the armed forces, for reasons of military security, refused to let servicemen give their new addresses until they had arrived at them. When they did, and could tell us about it, they generally-and quite naturally-neglected to mention their old address...
...Hayes, WQXR got the man who probably knows more than anyone else about the radio tastes of returning servicemen. His problem: how to make a big commercial success of a high-quality station. To skeptics, Hayes says: "How wrong can you be, betting on good taste...
Many a Pacific veteran came home with the gnawing fear that he was less of a man. Reason for the fear was a popular belief that virility is impaired or destroyed by mumu (filariasis), a disease which 10,000 U.S. servicemen contracted in the Southwest Pacific. Doctors tried to reassure them, but some victims were convinced that the long, slim worms in their lymph glands would eventually cause elephantiasis (natives of the tropics who have it are grotesquely swollen masses of flesh...