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...supplement for Yeoman Brill, I have been invited to corral letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, et cetra and formulate them so they will fabricate this week's column, Hence, I find my self poised over the typewriter with word baited fingers about to race (did I say race or erase) over the key-board to bring to the readers of this column a few seeds of humor which, I pray, may blossom into a smile or perhaps a laugh. If this should occur to but one reader, my journalistic effort will not be in vain...
...BARTLEY reported no some of the Lads in Company Easy so I thought I'd pass it on to you. . . JOHN McMANUS, a former yeoman, had been a Boston College Track Star and still makes his Saturday nite runs into Boston. . . DAVE HORWITZ was in the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal in late '42 and spent some time on a seaplane tender in the South Pacific. . . CLIFF HARRIS was a corpsman on a troop transport that made a tour of Casablanca, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic...
Thus, once again I stir from the obscurity of the "behind-the-scenes" life which is a Yeoman's fate, and take up my eager quill. All stray feathers resulting therefrom may be returned to the Navy Office...
Centrary to popular conception; a Yeoman lived a rather hectic life. His day is one of rebellious typewriters, misspelled words, incomplete forms, to say nothing of the many interruption for reasons which I have only hinted at earlier in this column. Despite all this, however, when the day's work is done, you will find--on the whole--that the Yeoman goes back to his sack with a smile of satisfaction. He has met his typewriter and he has subdued...
Asleep, awake, or in-between, a Yeoman always knows...