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...first thing of consequence I did before leaving Saigon for Da Lat, the central highlands, and language training was stop at the USO. GI's coming straight in from an 'operation' could check weapons and get showers, hamburgers, real milk and listen to rock'n'roll there. Huge galvanized buckets of anonymously addressed letters in geographical arrangement stand around for anyone to go through (nobody does). The letters come from school children and little old ladies usually and aren't the type soldiers are eager for. There are stacks of old magazines, junky concession stands, and a "boutique' selling...
...have never heard of Jan Brinker, but in South Viet Nam she is almost as famous as Doris Day. Jan, and perhaps a dozen other little-known entertainers, have been touring G.I. bases for a couple of years, and in their own way have become headliners. The USO sponsors tours by bigger names, and Bob Hope visits the troops regularly; still, the demand for entertainment is so insatiable that it has created a flourishing year-round vaudeville circuit...
...Russians their faces are remarkably dull; compare them to the beautiful hordes of extras in a Dovshenko. And they get in the way. When Ophelia comes on singing "Hey, nonny nonny," she has to bull her way through a battalion of military types. One thinks of the brave USO girls visiting the front...
...campus today is neither lab, library, gym nor classroom, but a huge fun house called the student union that blends the looks of a USO. a Howard Johnson's and the old Havana Hilton with the dreams of Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "USO-Wherever They Go!" is a tribute to the United Service Organizations on its 20th anniversary, with President Kennedy and former Presidents Eisenhower and Truman participating. Stars in the wartime and contemporary film clips include Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Lena Home, Danny Kaye, Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Reynolds and Danny Thomas...