Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ends. The boys' gagmen have apparently been busy with one of the largest card indexes in Hollywood. The picture comes closest to comic originality when it swipes the idea of Charles Addams' famous and unsettling New Yorker cartoon which showed what was apparently one man's ski tracks passing a tree on both sides...
...Wilmott Ragsdale, about whom I last told you when he was looping the loop with our desert glider students at Twentynine Palms and swooping down Mt. Rainier with the ski troopers, is now with the U.S. Army in Britain...
...another of our Army & Navy reporters has not visited for you in the past three years-in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia or the Hawaiians. They have looped in gliders at Twentynine Palms, sweated in tanks at Fort Knox, Ky., slid in the snow with the ski troopers on Mt. Rainier. They have visited scores of aircraft factories, tank arsenals and munitions plants-spent hours and even days in the testing laboratories and on the firing ranges -sailed on some of our biggest war ships...
...Seventh day. . . . Ski [Chief Petty Officer J. J. Rutkowski] gets very sick, heaves until he is weak, has chills, stomachaches and we cannot keep him warm. . . . He has us pretty worried. . . . The put-put goes out and the battery is very low. . . . Cannot key the transmitter, no plate voltage...
Ames was First Marshal of his Class, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the ski team, and the Student Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure. Burditt, also First Marshal of his Class, was in addition to this, president of the Student Council and Phillips Brooks House, and captain of the basketball team...