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Truth is that the 25,000 employes of the motion-picture industry in Hollywood give more per capita in approved charity campaigns-and more closely approach 100% participation-than does any comparable group or community anywhere. In the recent War Chest drive an alltime high of $1,170,407 was contributed by a record number of 24,741 donors...
...where it will do the most good, the motion-picture industry five years ago set up a Permanent Charities Committee composed of representatives of all guilds, unions and other industry groups. . . . Hollywood's record for giving [was] termed by P. G. Winnett, campaign chairman, Los Angeles area War Chest, "an exceptional one" and "a convincing example for less civic-minded groups...
Combat Wreckage. Battle scars are everywhere. When we rolled into Bhamo there was a Jap tankette still rusting by the road and outside one dugout, two feet from the highway, lay a Japanese soldier still unburied. His pants and wool puttees were dried on his body, but his chest, exposed, was now a hollow framework of ribs through which red dust sifted...
...deeply interested in people. His cables were filled with descriptions of the men he met-the soft-spoken Marine colonel known as "The Brute," the New Zealand major with a fresco of butterflies and birds tattooed on his chest, the scared troops aboard an assault ship with their faces smeared with green camouflage paint and softly singing as H-hour approached...
...roaming the part of Europe that is now France. They were about 5 ft. 4 in. tall, and weighed about 200 Ibs.; they had huge heads, almost no necks, broad faces and pale brown eyes of metallic hardness. The women had a heavy thicket of black hair over back, chest and belly; a huge mane of hair hung from skull to waist...