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...Russell, whose friends have been giving him up for dead on a day by day basis for at least nine years, used to hang out with the Chicago crowd during his undergraduate days at the University of St. Louis. He'd skip out of classes every week and start back Tuesday so he'd be back Wednesday in time for his first Monday class. One week he was in St. Louis just long enough to buy another ticket to Chicago. He forgot to get a round trip; so he never went back...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...skip for a moment to the affairs that really matter, my roommates and myself would like to request, somewhat wist fully, that student officers with pretty wives would declare the sidewalk in front of Morris Hall out of bounds. It seems that many of these officers allow their women folk to wait for them in front of our window and it is rather disconcerting to serious minded students to see so many well turned ankles gambolling around in front of them. Pulling the shades doesn't work because Rusty Mueller simply can't stand to have the shades down when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

...Saloons with such names as the Alley Cat, Collar and Elbow, Pick and Shovel, Graveyard, Pay Day. >Waitresses with such names as Skip Chute, Mag the Rag, Hay ride, The Race Horse, Take-Five Annie, Ellen the Elephant, Little Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncorseted Wench | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...realize how much the fellows and girls at the plant want that raise. I want it too because after all I have a little money coming to me out of that too, but I am willing to skip that money if it means you have to go on strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...have accomplished what we have in the Pacific with our left hand and our back turned-in the Solomons chiefly with naval and air weapons. Once we can turn our face to the Pacific, the hop-skip to Vella Lavella will look like a pip-squeak. Then strategists can begin to contemplate the kind of spectacular bypassing that will be necessary if we ever expect to reach Tokyo, the kind of massive land invasions necessary to knock the Jap out of his main bases and hold them. Until they can turn around, the Allies will have to be satisfied with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Hot for the Jap | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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