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...flame-throwing infantryman presses a push-button switch to get the spark that ignites hydrogen near the nozzle. This acts as a pilot light, ignites the fuel oil emerging under pressure from nitrogen. Back of him are three tanks: a small one for gas pressure, a pair of larger ones for fuel...
...Great Willkie Button Mystery was at last explained. When the New Jersey mother of a Marine in the South Pacific got a letter from him asking for 500 old Willkie campaign buttons, with the explanation of why he wanted them deleted by a censor. Republican National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler sized the event up as a red-hot issue. Probably, he spluttered, demanding an investigation, the Marine was just trying to counteract New Deal propaganda in the armed forces...
Last week the true explanation came from NBC Correspondent Robert McCormick. The Marine's outfit makes a practice of bestowing on bellyachers "weeping slips" entitling them to cry on the chaplain's shoulder. When a Marine accumulates ten slips he is decorated. The decoration: a Willkie button. Last week the New Jersey marine's mother got another letter: 500 more buttons, please...
...readers: "The average G.I. Joe wants to see his name in print and likes to laugh at himself and his pals." Accordingly, Robinson handles front-line news in facetious but never flippant style. Battlefront pictures are taboo, since the doughboy knows what the front looks like. No button-polishing publicity sheet, 48th News carries officers' stories only when they are really interesting. (The division's general was interviewed when he took over, has been mentioned only twice since...
...Acquired a wardrobe of 40 suits, 20 shirts, 25 ties, half a dozen pairs of shoes, two mink-lined topcoats, three gold cigaret cases valued at $700 apiece, a star sapphire ring ($1,200), high yellow button shoes for race meetings, an 18-carat, 110-penny-weight watch chain 17 inches long; and from his writings, endorsements...