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British officers near Kohima on India's frontier were politely baffled by the two Americans. Their three-day passes checked perfectly; they were in the front-line area legally enough. But they made the most amazing request. Bored with running railroads back of the line, they insisted that they wanted to spend their holiday killing Japanese...
Rarity. In Fort Worth, the only item reported missing after a three-day Army showing of several million dollars' worth of equipment was a pair of rayon WAC panties, with real elastic...
...military government was floundering worse than ever. Knots of opposition, as yet ineffective but nonetheless significant, began to appear. Some of the army's generals began to look askance at Peron's strutting colonels. For want of a better leader some anti-totalitarians were turning to former three-day President Arturo Rawson.*Pro-Allied but indecisive, he had often proved disappointing...
...lowered our seats and pulled down the hatches. Now our vision was limited by the slits of our periscopes. The noise of battle was fainter in our ears, but it was still perfectly audible. Sweat began to etch rivulets down dusty faces and clot in the stubble of three-day beards. With brows pressed against the rubber cushion above the periscope we watched the battle panorama unroll. The smell of cordite and the smell of dead bodies filtered through the vents and seemed to enter our pores...
...they must to all sportsmen, poker and craps finally came to the White Sea League.* Three-day games of five-card stud, with table stakes, no limit, became routine. The poker ended abruptly when one ship won $1,992, leaving $8 as total capital among the other three. Craps redistributed the wealth, but not for long. A few days before the convoy finally sailed, the game became the property of two shipmates. One, a Yale alumnus, owned the dice. The other, a Sing Sing alumnus, had all the money...