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Victory in Europe did something to two untidy G.I.s that morale officers or spit-&-polish generals could never do. Last week Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed Willie and Joe washed their dirty faces. (Joe, on being scoured up, proved to look startlingly like button-nosed Mauldin himself...
President Harry Truman was sitting in a cane-backed swivel chair, one elbow resting on the Presidential desk. He wore a double-breasted blue suit with a World War I discharge button in his left lapel...
...method in keeping with his professional interests (he was owner of a big bazooka factory). To a caviar-and-cham-pagne banquet he invited 100 of his cronies. When the last course was eaten, the fat cigars smoked and the fine cognac gone, Herr Bundin pressed a button. He had mined the banquet hall. He and his guests were atomized into dust...
...which fills strainer floor with water to depths of two feet for wading children, to seven feet for swimming adults. "If you must show off still further, go ahead and turn on Hollywood electrical aquatic display, in color. Warning: with swimmers in pool, for goodness sake watch out for button that operates automatic disposal...
...from Alameda feels in combat over Truk ("Those Grummans are beautiful planes," said Lieut, (j.g.) Eugene Valencia; "if they could cook, I'd marry one"); how a baby-faced lad from Athens, Ga. came to be known as "One-Slug" McWhorter ("You just sat back, pressed the button and he blew up and wasn't there any more"); and how planes are lost, in combat or accident; and how the Navy risks everything to save downed flyers from becoming drowned or captured flyers...