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When a harassed, middle-aged soldier turned up at Fort McPherson, Ga., to report back after a ten-day leave, he was promptly tossed into the guardhouse. His ten-day leave had lasted 22 years, six months, 13 days. When he had finished his furlough in May 1919, he decided to stay home because he felt emotionally upset. Later, feeling better, he went back to the fort; his outfit had disappeared. In 1932, when he tried to straighten things out through the War Department, the Department coldly advised him that he was classified as a deserter, but "didn...
Railroad general staffs have laid plans for this campaign for months. Head-tohead were the A.A.R.'s Military Transportation Section and the Quartermaster General's men. At first the Army debonairly planned to give all its men the regulation ten-day leave, starting Dec. 21. The railroad men shuddered. They anticipated the greatest mail load on record, plus a December holiday civilian load of over two billion passenger-miles, and they did not want 800 million soldier-miles dumped on top of that all at once. They persuaded the QMC to stagger its leaves: men who live near...
...James Bryant Conant as an honorary editor of the literary Harvard Advocate. Sailors of the U.S. Navy decided buxom Cinemactress Jane Russell was "the girl we'd like most to have waiting for us in every port," sent her six loving cups. Home with mother was Lenore Lemmon, ten-day bride of playful Jakie Webb. Lenore said she had found Jakie was tattooed from head to foot. "If and when I get out of this mess," said Lenore, "I'm going to marry a bricklayer, a . . . boy who's never even seen a nightclub...
...seacoast and from rail communications in Indo-China, Free China today finds herself as wholly dependent for materiel upon the Burma Road as is Britain upon the North Atlantic. And even had the burly Chinese truckers, who battle dust, rain, malarial mosquitoes, hangovers and enemy bombers on the ten-day grind to Kunming, managed to transport the "maximum" 30,000 tons per month, supplies would still have been woefully short of what Chiang needs for a first-class offensive...
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau left Washington on a ten-day fishing trip last week with a light heart. He had at last found an effective way to sell large amounts of defense bonds to the general public, thus straighten the worst kink in his three-month-old savings-bond drive...