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Sawdust Trail. In Medford, Ore., Army Lieut. Hugh Collins' parrot Snafu, sent to jail for habitual bad language, turned over a new leaf, croaked snatches of old-time Gospel hymns...
...name. But millions probably knew him as Jack Benny's English butler, train announcer, parrot, French violin teacher and news reporter; as Burns & Allen's melancholy postman; as Judy Canova's Pedro, Salesman Roscoe Wortle and a chronic hiccougher; as Bob Hope's "Private Snafu"; as Abbott & Costello's Scotsman...
...Senate subcommittee with eyes cocked at the political heavens summoned Chief of Staff Eisenhower last week to explain the demobilization snafu-and incidentally to air their own views. They reckoned without Strategist Ike Eisenhower. Before the week was out he had passed the buck right back to Congress...
...confused with other G.I. additions to the language; e.g., snafu (situation normal, all fouled up), janfu (joint Army-Navy foul-up), fubar (fouled up beyond all recognition...
...Snafu" was an amusing, though not too successful farce of the problems attending the involuntary demobilization of a 15-year-old Army sergeant. The movie version has the same plot, the same stock characters, the same gags, and largely the same setting; the changes are in the very beginning and end of the picture, and neither one is an improvement...