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...class is rapidly catching on to the traditions of the NSCS. We learned (the hard way) that the coke-and-cloak room in Briggs is a W-V (S) rendezvous ONLY when no member of the USN is in the building. We guessed we were table conversation after that inauspicious morning of the first lecture when Mr. Ashler started us off with a reprimand and that dark brown look. But now after a little priming and further acquaintance with Longfellow we promise to be a good class and GIVE...

Author: By Jean Colgate and Ensigns RUTH Wolgast, S | Title: Creating a Ripple | 4/16/1943 | See Source »

...greatest loss that Stoughtonites incurred in moving to Weld seems to be the luxury of an on-the-spot coke dispenser. Now the poor lads have to walk all the way across the Yard to Hollis--a distance that certain experts claim is practically the same as the span between Weld and McBride's. and much less interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam of Company B | 4/16/1943 | See Source »

Except for the armed guard at the door, the khaki uniforms and the rack of chevron-emblazoned coats, the office looks like any other publication's editorial rooms, even to the crimson coke machine and the maps on the walls...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: 'Yank' Glorifies Army's Average Enlistees; Published Here and Abroad by Noncoms | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

Except for the armed guard at the door, the khaki uniforms and the rack of chevron-emblazoned coats, the office looks like any other publication's editorial rooms, even to the crimson coke machine and the maps on the walls...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: 'Yank' Glorifies Army's Average Enlistees, Published Here and Abroad by Noncoms | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

Speakers and lectures and high-pressure business meetings are not the chief features of this ladies club, however. They specialize in parties and teas and coke-sessions, which take place on a once a day and twice on Sunday schedule. The last real fete was the Christmas party, at which the members are said to have consumed several bowls of fruit punch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over 300 Navy Wives Form Club for Entertainment, Work | 2/19/1943 | See Source »

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