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...Front, which is like a long letter home, sets forth some of Bill Mauldin's favorite gripes, which are the gripes of all infantrymen. Among them: revulsion at "spit & polish" in the field; envy of rear-echelon men who take over the towns after the infantrymen have captured them, occupy all the best spots and drink all the liquor; disdain for brass hats full of arrogance and stuffing...
General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 62, now at, a spit-&-polish job (Chief of the Army Ground Forces), was remembered in a more casually dressed post (U.S. commander in the CBI Theater). One G.I., not recognizing the General as he wandered about the front without his star-spangled insignia, commented: "Just look at that poor old man-some draft boards will do anything...
Victory in Europe did something to two untidy G.I.s that morale officers or spit-&-polish generals could never do. Last week Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed Willie and Joe washed their dirty faces. (Joe, on being scoured up, proved to look startlingly like button-nosed Mauldin himself...
...mechanized outfit the ist Cavalry Division left Fort Bliss in 1943, bound for the Pacific. Its commander was burly Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, a veteran spit-&-polish horse soldier ("It doesn't take a damn bit of practice to live like a hog") who made a crack record in combat...
...surged and swayed around the grisly spot. One woman emptied a pistol into the Duce's body. "Five shots!" she screamed. "Five shots for my five murdered sons!" Others cried: "He died too quickly! He should have suffered!" But the hate of many was wordless. They could only spit...