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...First Brigade had all the mess halls, kitchens and heads (Marine for latrines) that it needed. It also had a good-looking tent camp. Meanwhile the boots (Marine for recruits) had started to come in. Still working seven days a week, the oldtimers finished off the boots' primary training...
...Ranger was Earle Graser, who liked to garden and play badminton and who didn't learn to ride a horse until a couple of years ago. He was 32 years old, a graduate of Wayne (Mich.) University who studied law two years, then took up acting in tent shows throughout Michigan. He got a job with Detroit's station WXYZ, which was losing money in those days...
Safely out from under his oxygen tent, tough, square-rigged Eddie Ricken backer wiggled up a wan thumb to prove his recovery. The old ace (28 planes and balloons downed in World War I) confessed that after three weeks' puzzling over the Atlanta plane crash which took eight lives and nearly his own, "I can find no explanation. We were just flying 1,000 feet too low." No man to be stopped by a broken hip, four fractured ribs, Captain Eddie summoned his Eastern Air Linemen, commenced to do business from his hospital...
Military advances are marked by the mile; diplomatic advances by the country. Germany's diplomatic march through Europe last week was faster than the British reconquest of Africa. With a tiny squeal of protest, Yugoslavia slipped sidewise into the Axis tent, leaving Greece in peril of being dragged there by the hair (see col. 2). Although Turkey made it clear that she would fight back if she were attacked, Turkey made it almost as clear that she would not fight for Greece...
...began to investigate radio reception in a tent at Riverhead, L. I. Its facilities then were as clumsy as the rickety Ford the technicians used to get from home to work...