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Battle Bred. In a quiet moment of the noisy Gilberts affair, John decided to take a shower on the Liscome Bay, had just soaped himself when the little carrier was torpedoed. Naked as a new chick, he made his way through the shattered carrier to the flight deck. (The Liscome Bay was afire from stem to stern, sinking in a sea of blazing oil.) John jumped overboard. Badly burned, he was finally plucked out of the ocean by a destroyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: The Indestructibies | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Highlight of the Faculty Club sofree will be the presentation of a plaque to the member of our class who turned on a Dillon Field House shower and got wet. Those are the only showers in the world under which you can stand in perfect safety with all your clothers...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 12/21/1943 | See Source »

...excited over the prospect of a shower that yields water at Dillon Field House. The H. A. A. got wind of it and had the leak repaired immediately...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 12/21/1943 | See Source »

...Redheaded Bill Hippie had bad luck. He had boarded his transport and was taking a shower to rid himself of the putrid smell of the dead, when the ship unexpectedly pulled out. He finally got a message to Rear Admiral Howard Kingman, a battleship division commander, who sent a catapult plane. It took Hippie's stories, a day late, back to Tarawa, whence they were planed to Pearl Harbor for radioing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Best-Covered Story | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...lush décors ("The bathroom was a miracle of coral, blue, and jade green, with a tub of flush-pink marble. There was also an open fireplace and a small concealed refrigerator for keeping cold her lotions and the Guinness's Stout. . . . Mirrored closets, glass-enclosed shower, a couple of low overstuffed slipper chairs in coral satin, two washbasins, and a telephone. . . . Her husband's eyes searched the magnificence. 'Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lay That Pistil Down, Babe | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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