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...there you have the type of rubber-jawed female who thinks she's going all-out for victory by slapping some unoffending stranger with the sneer: "Why aren't you in uniform?" when he's liable to be a discharged vet or someone like me, who volunteered and was rejected three times for hernia. Both remarks presuppose that men are free agents and aren't in combat only because they are craven, and that's more nonsense than your Miss Shepard ought to be allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1944 | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Drugged, married to a strip teaser, shot at and generally pushed around, Hope keeps half a step ahead of his pursuers. Cornered by a loony Civil War vet and his invisible partner, Cartwright, Hope gets the vet to shoot Cartwright, in a rather amusing sequence of events...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: "They Got Me Covered" | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Mileage? "The vet gave her one quart of kerosene and she ran four miles, so I judge she would have gone 16 miles on the four quarts. I can't tell you her speed, as the vet hasn't yet caught up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Fair Answer | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

Hopped Hogs. In Paducah, Ky., mystified Lewis Schmidt's hogs were finally cured of acute dopiness when a vet changed their bedding. The old bedding: marijuana leaves which, when warmed by the hogs' bodies, had given them pipe dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

Once a Trouper. In South Bend, unthinking Harry Holubiak pastured his work horse, an oldtime circus performer, near a field where Navy recruits drilled to band music. Later a vet treated the horse for exhaustion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1942 | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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