Word: furlough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effusive. Highballing away the nights and days in their hotel suites just as though they were in the good old Bellevue-Stratford, Jack Kelly's pals from Philly sent him practical jokes in the form of telegrams. "Report back to the Palace, Kelly," said one. "Your furlough is up." President Eisenhower's personal representative, Hotelman Conrad Hilton, on arrival brushed aside the suggestion that he might want to build a Monaco Hilton: "We never build in resorts or small towns...
...uniforms, Steiner and his men surprise four Russian front-line bunker crews, tommy-gun all of their sleepy-eyed occupants, except for one whom they use as a decoy in crossing over to their unbelieving buddies. Steiner is made a sergeant on the spot and gets a furlough, but all he and his men have really won is a brief reprieve, not a full pardon from death. The whole crumbling German front is itself a rearguard desperately parrying Russian advances and encirclements...
However, Bill Cleary is just on a two-week furlough from the Army, and Shepard won't be able to use him in this afternoon's 3 p.m. E.I.B.L. opener against Army at Soldiers Field...
...Backyard. Calcagno himself was born just one remove from Europe. The son of Italian immigrant parents, he grew up on a cattle ranch in California's Big Sur country, first tried his hand at watercolors in New Orleans while on a furlough from the U.S. Air Force. Says he: "I got a big kick out of taking things, shuffling them up, putting in yellow skies." The surprise came when a New Orleans gallery picked up his work, gave him a show. Thus encouraged, Calcagno took a leisurely painting tour of Mexico after World War II, then showed...
Napoleon & Me. The sixth river was the Liffey, in Dublin. There Johnston was married during a brief furlough. Soon he was back at the front, bridging the seventh river, the Rhine, and pushing on into Germany. With the hard-driving U.S. tankmen he felt at home. But he also felt sorry for the Germans, until one day when he came upon the Buchenwald death camp and choked as he recorded the story...